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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prism" data-source="post: 5608642" data-attributes="member: 9501">We tend to have more non combat sessions at higher levels. Our adventures at that level tend to be fairly wide spaced geographically and we sometimes can spend an entire session planning the best way to traverse a long distance and then getting there. We will role play the city stops and the DM will describe new lands and features to us. We may get the odd random encounter but these aren't usually level appropriate and we usually flee if the encounter is too hard or simple ignore it if its too low. We tend to spend much of the time on phantom steeds, teleporting or shadow walking which helps us avoid fights should we wish. No point in wasting time and effort on non related combats. Of course there are exceptions.The other factor is that we often decide on our own quests and even when the adventure is DM provided its often the case that its not entirely clear where or what the adventure is and the best way to approach it. We might hear a rumor of bad stuff happening somewhere. We can spend up to 1-3 sessions casting rituals, getting to the adventure local, using skills (in or out of challenges), crafting items specific to the adventure. The DM rarely hands the big adventures to us on a platter - we have to find them.As an example, our current adventure we are doing is a scaled version (to 19th) of Monument of the Ancients with a conversion linking it to the abyssal plague story line. When we first heard a hint that something big was happening we were on the opposite side of faerun pretty much and it took us a good few weeks with maybe just two combats and a mini sidetrek to get ourself to the moonsea area and discover any actual details. If I recall correctly it was well over 1000 miles and we didn't have any teleport circles we could use to get there. At 19th level there isn't much in the wilderness of Faerun that you just happen to bump into that is worthy of a combat. However there are plenty of things to see if you fancy a bit of sight seeing - which we did</blockquote>

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