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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6118201" data-attributes="member: 22779">So, this whole thing is nothing but semantics?  Good grief.  It's okay for me to say, "We've got a goal, let's head to it" but, I'm not allowed to voice an opinion about what's likely going to come ahead?  The facts that 1.  I was right and nothing in the module actually WAS relevant and 2.  anything in the desert can be skipped with impunity don't matter?Well, I don't know what exploration in regards to D&D means, so, can you please tell me what you mean by exploration as it refers to the desert?  Because, AFAIC, "exploring" looks a heck of a lot more like JackintheGreen's definition.ARRRRGHHGHGHGHG.Are you really not reading what I'm writing?Ok.  You explain to me how something I can skip with impunity, that is 100% ok to skip so long as I have the right plot coupon, can possibly be relevant to my goals other than tangentially?  How can something that I can skip possibly be necessary or important?It might be interesting, sure.  But, since I can completely skip it and that's fine, how can it possibly be terribly relevant?  Encounters cannot impart any necessary information or resources, since that would mean that they can no longer be skipped without causing problems later.  They cannot contain any later recurring NPC's, since skipping the encounters would mean that they won't be met in the first place.So, how can any encounter that is 100% superfluous, which is any encounter which can be skipped with impunity, possibly be relevant?</blockquote>

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