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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8060321" data-attributes="member: 6901101">Those are great questions. I suppose it is because of the flexibility the game provides (and always has provided). I mean, nothing is stopping a DM from taking an adventure and having the players start at the last dungeon at the appropriate level. Just give them the backstory and toss them in. DM's can (and do) level characters every session. That's twenty sessions to reach the pentacle. Or they use experience points and it takes years. This flexibility is their "out." I do think players like to see growth too. I know my friends and I really like that part of the game, so there is that.And, D&D AP's are built for the masses. The masses like starting at the base of the mountain. But there is that flexibility, D&D "out," that allows the smaller percentage that don't like starting at the base to take the tram up. Rise of Tiamat is an example. You can completely skip Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and jump to higher level play.Lastly, you are right about Strahd and Tomb. It is not only encouraged, but almost necessary. I mean the wandering monster table in Chult is harrowing! Assassin vines? On a second level group. 3 of them. That is not assassination, it's slaughter! <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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