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Sure. I prefer to use methods other than GM decides to handle this sort of thing. I started a (long) thread about this earlier this...
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For a magic system designed for this purpose, this is certainly something that can be answered. Perhaps combat magic is powered by the...
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To add to this: while the PCs, typically, do not want to be in combat, I assume that people playing a game which has an intricate combat...
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starting at level 11, and just barely barely, with the gap starting to widen from level 13 on up, so for levels that are mostly ignored...
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Sure, I mentioned this upthread. But the same techniques that can be used in 4e to maintain pressure on the PCs, so that the players...
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Your last para moves from "can"/possibility to "must"/necessity - which are not the same thing. But anyway, in D&D there is always a...
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