🪴 "What is the Encounter Doing?" Table

1. Lost
2. Hurt
3. Trapped
4. Sleeping
5. Eating
6. Sick
7. Tracking Prey
8. Lying in Ambush
9. Mating Behavior
10. Starving
11. Returning Home
12. Fleeing
13. Plotting
14. Holding Captives
15. Scavenging
16. Building a Camp
17. Demolishing
18. Doing drugs or drinking
19. Artistic pursuits
20. Spying
21. Committing a crime
22. Searching
23. Religious ritual
24. Setting, putting out, or fleeing a fire
25. Weeping
26. Excreting
27. Bathing
28. Socializing
29. Gloating
30. Something that isn’t on this table.

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🌱 Encounters should be agentic
🌱 Encounters should have desires and the ability to pursue them
🌱 Encounters should be doing something specific when you encounter them
🌱 The majority of encounters should make an undesirable demand on the player's attention

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