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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stoutstien" data-source="post: 7923102" data-attributes="member: 7020569">No, encounters do not always need to be combat. Social or exploration encounters can be just as challenging, rewarding , and have the same potential for the party to spend resources on to make them easier.Don't place your encounters in predictable patterns all the time and the unknown factor has a bigger factor than attrition will any day. Have the dragon become mutiple encounters as it uses hit and run tactics to soften the party up before the final confrontation and after the party defeats it have some minions ambush them on the way out, even if it only an easy encounter,  removes the certainly of once the big threat is dealt with suddenly they are safe.</blockquote>