Definitions for "Encounter"
Keywords:  hostile, healthcare, armies, meet, care
To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
a place in the samurai's journey where he comes across something unexpected which tests his abilities and affects his disposition
a point in time where a samurai comes across something unexpected which tests her abilities and affects her disposition
Usually on an adventure, an encounter is a chance for players to interract with NPCs, monsters, etc. For example, an attack by bandits, a room to search, aid from a healer and so on.
( link / ) A self-contained event or series of events in which the PCs do (or have the opportunity to do) something of significance. Attending a royal ball would be an encounter, picking a lock would not. Linking together several encounters is the most basic way to build an adventure.
Encounter was a controversial literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neoconservative author, Irving Kristol, and published in England. The magazine ceased publication in 1990. It was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal.
contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
Keywords:  nonconformist, dream
a nonconformist's dream
an euphemism for a situation in which when a gangster is cornered and asked to surrender, apparently attacks the police or tries to escape and is shot in retaliatory action
a situation where one player aggresses against another player
Keywords:  stearns, michael, album, released
Encounter is an album by Michael Stearns, released in 1988.
be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
a set of vertices defining a region that can spawn in a set of creatures when creatures of certain factions enter it
The word used to indicate an event in an rpg where characters interact with one another, in some manner.
Keywords:  divine, appointment, god
a divine appointment with God
a placed-trigger that checks a radius surrounding itself when a player character enters it
Keywords:  hmo, submitted, paid, relates, record
a record submitted by the HMO, which relates applicable information regarding services paid by the HMO
experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
Keywords:  org, www, http, world
http://www.en-world.org Encounter
Keywords:  fight, minor, short, term
a minor short-term fight
Each time a person receives medical services.