The Third Pillar of Exploration

A monster encounter can go two ways, combat or social. You want to cover both bases. That's knowing what the monsters want and how strong their position is. So if you have both of those bases covered, you are pretty much prepared for every situation. Yet, i'd argue that when we think about how wide exploration is, the idea of sort of stealthing your way around a bunch of monsters can be a third option as well. But then you don't have to plan for that. From the monster's point of view, if y right, he sees stealth past them, the theysve notisd a.