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Was wondering about this and how it might not be the same as ones first system played. (let's not count general dice or battle maps etc. this time) For me it might be either Mouse Guard 2e boxed set or DnD 5e Tomb of Annihilation book.

Yeah, it was really a challenge to do that at first but when everyone agreed that our planning took too long and we decided to do this, it has become quite routine for us to notice when planning triggers the information gathering phase. And as players are getting more familiar with this, their planning has changed as well. The focus of planning is now more about coming up with relevant sources of information than trying to anticipate the future.

Use every opportunity to turn planning into information gathering. I try to use every opportunity to stop the planning "phase" of the game and go to the information gathering before continuing the planning. This can be pretty much any unknown that the characters bring up, like some if -statement in their plan, some fact they are unsure about etc. The information gathering might be anything from a simple skill check to a full adventure and after that we go right back to the planning. This has removed a lot of planning hours that wouldn't have had anything to do with the situation they are going into.

If remember correctly, DC20 does something similar but instead of the same spell you must use some other spell that would be a reasonable counter effect against the effect that the spell is trying to produce.

For me the main one is to run Blades in the Dark for the very first time and maybe play through the Pendragon starter adventure.