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<blockquote data-quote="Coredump" data-source="post: 6824914" data-attributes="member: 6939"><p>I appreciate your ability to quote in with various font sizes and colors, and to provide very long quotes..... but your post still does not completely support your earlier claims.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>1) This quote is *explicitly* answering how to deal with the XP deficit in RoT. And it says you should not just make up more encounters simply to compensate for that XP deficit. This, however, is a far cry from the very broad, very all-encompassing declarations you keep making. You cannot take a specific example, and claim it is an all encompassing general rule.</p><p>Especially when there is conflicting information that *is* presented in more general terms.</p><p>From 'DMing and DM Empowerment':</p><p>Under 'Adding Encounters:' </p><p>"Be very careful when adding encounters. "</p><p>"If you add encounters..."</p><p>"When you add encounters..."</p><p></p><p>See, *very* different statements than the one you keep proclaiming as an absolute truth.....</p><p></p><p>Now, it also provides a restriction...</p><p>"Add only those encounters that the characters actually trigger..."</p><p></p><p>But even that provides a decent amount of leeway. And it doesn't conflict with the RoT answer since that answer deals with disallowing encounters for the sole purpose of bumping XP.... which means they were not triggered by the PCs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As for the second issue.... You can't quote *my* source and then pretend like it means you are right. Even better, you added another source that also disagrees with you....</p><p></p><p>Looking over those pages.... no where does it mention only ever adding more of the exact same creature. So one could follow that FAQ, read those pages, and be allowed to add various creatures of the appropriate CR.... it never mentions the restrictions you keep insisting upon.</p><p></p><p>But lets keep going...</p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">As I have said to you before, and you continually ignore.... these restrictions are based on using the same TYPE of creature, not using only more of the exact same creature. In DnD, 'Type' is a term with a specific meaning.... particularly in relation to describing creatures. You, however, keep posting the quote that explicity says 'same type', but also keep insisting it must only be more of the exact same creature....</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Further...</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>This tells us 2 things..... </p><p>1) Expeditions already does this. They do *not* rely on only adding more/less of the same, they often add *different* creatures that are of the same *type*. Just like the article suggests.</p><p>2) Encounters and Casual games are even 'looser' and tend to fall back to the same guidelines we discussed above.</p><p></p><p>But regardless.... the restriction is based on creature *type*, something you seem to keep glossing over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coredump, post: 6824914, member: 6939"] I appreciate your ability to quote in with various font sizes and colors, and to provide very long quotes..... but your post still does not completely support your earlier claims. 1) This quote is *explicitly* answering how to deal with the XP deficit in RoT. And it says you should not just make up more encounters simply to compensate for that XP deficit. This, however, is a far cry from the very broad, very all-encompassing declarations you keep making. You cannot take a specific example, and claim it is an all encompassing general rule. Especially when there is conflicting information that *is* presented in more general terms. From 'DMing and DM Empowerment': Under 'Adding Encounters:' "Be very careful when adding encounters. " "If you add encounters..." "When you add encounters..." See, *very* different statements than the one you keep proclaiming as an absolute truth..... Now, it also provides a restriction... "Add only those encounters that the characters actually trigger..." But even that provides a decent amount of leeway. And it doesn't conflict with the RoT answer since that answer deals with disallowing encounters for the sole purpose of bumping XP.... which means they were not triggered by the PCs. As for the second issue.... You can't quote *my* source and then pretend like it means you are right. Even better, you added another source that also disagrees with you.... Looking over those pages.... no where does it mention only ever adding more of the exact same creature. So one could follow that FAQ, read those pages, and be allowed to add various creatures of the appropriate CR.... it never mentions the restrictions you keep insisting upon. But lets keep going... [INDENT] As I have said to you before, and you continually ignore.... these restrictions are based on using the same TYPE of creature, not using only more of the exact same creature. In DnD, 'Type' is a term with a specific meaning.... particularly in relation to describing creatures. You, however, keep posting the quote that explicity says 'same type', but also keep insisting it must only be more of the exact same creature.... Further... [/INDENT]This tells us 2 things..... 1) Expeditions already does this. They do *not* rely on only adding more/less of the same, they often add *different* creatures that are of the same *type*. Just like the article suggests. 2) Encounters and Casual games are even 'looser' and tend to fall back to the same guidelines we discussed above. But regardless.... the restriction is based on creature *type*, something you seem to keep glossing over. [/QUOTE]
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