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Originally Posted by Beginning of the End  "Help! My players are having too much fun clearing out the goblin clans from the Underfen! How can I make my players stop having fun so that they'll go fight some 'level-appropriate' encounters? What should I do?" |
If that's directed at my comments about grinding for XP:
What I worry is that grinding for XP is too attractive a choice for the players to make, so that they'll do it (or feel like they're screwing themselves if they don't), even though they don't really enjoy it.
I haven't seen grinding at the table, but I've done it in computer games and I don't like it. (Which is bad game design, in my opinion; if you can do something to gain an advantage in a game, it should be fun to do, and not require a choice between advantage + no fun vs. no advantage + fun.)
It might be fun at the table, so that might not even be an issue.
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