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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8828576" data-attributes="member: 29398">Because in sport the intent is to win fairly and lose with grace.  Surviving to play another game is assumed, win or lose.  Hence, the encounters must generally be easy enough to allow the assumption of survival to hold, and rarely if ever will the PCs find themselves in something they can't handle.In war the intent is to win, by whatever means you have available, and not to lose at all.  Surviving to play another game is not assumed unless you win.  Hence the encounters may be hard enough to put the PCs in over their heads, and it's on the players/PCs to find a way to survive if this turns out to be the case.</blockquote>