Re: How impotant is combat to your game.
Our fantasy games tend to be more combat-oriented. Most but not all sessions have a fight. (They're generally too time-consuming for more than one big battle, to still have time for all the rest.) Most of the important plot points appear outside of combat. Sometimes the combats are both, as something important gets revealed by or during the fight itself. Sometimes the combats are just the showdown with the bad guys.
The space games, much less so -- well, except for the brief period we were playing Traveller TNE, where "smash and grab" seemed to be the order of the day.
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