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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickles III" data-source="post: 6801747" data-attributes="member: 6793942">The issue I have with this is that it can turn the game into more of an accounting exercise than anything else. There is little real tension in the one guaranteed trivial encounter you are just tracking resources & trying not to spend too many. I obviously prefer the model that has exciting, dangerous fights as standard.Where 5e "combat as war" has worked for me is when the enemies have been clearly too powerful to deal with all at once & so reconnaissance & tactics to break them up & to engage then disengage have all been useful (Where in 4e we'd have just piled in).The fights themselves can still be a bit dull but the plotting around them is interesting Spoilery - I have just started playing OOTA.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I have done this for random encounters since 3e. There is little point in a very one sided fight but if encounters always turn up in ~3s then they become somewhat challenging -> fun.I also use them to pace players in high risk environments & also sometimes just to change the pace if there has been a lot of RP, investigation or scheming. I don't mind these being less fraught as the purpose is not to challenge the player just to break things up or let them feel bad ass.  Encounters in RP games can serve lots of different purposes.</blockquote>

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