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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1809452" data-attributes="member: 5171">Wow.  Great responses.  Thanks!Not all fights should be challenging: Good point, and I left out some fights with ruffians that were good chances for the PCs to show what they could do.  A couple of players got into the showy swashbuckler stuff, while others tried to be as efficient and straightforward as possible.No time to plan: Another good point.  What that really means is that I have to have tighter planning.Villains not min-max-efficient either: Wow.  Duh.  I was partly screwed because I didn't have time to make the merchant wizard and had to play him based on what I knew -- but yeah, he needs to be using crazier, cooler stuff.  And he needs minions that stick around longer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I do stand by the plan failing, though.  The plan involved sending someone with a +0 to Bluff in against someone known to be intelligent, insightful, and dangerous while everyone else waited outside.Getting folks to watch movies: Yes.  Or at least letting them know in no uncertain terms that my plan is not to force efficiency from them.I've gotta watch myself, too.  If people act efficient in what I perceive as a conscious attempt to kill the excitement and make things safe and logical, then I feel I have to up the ante to make things challenging, since the plan had been "not challenging" before.  But that just encourages them to do that.  Hrm.  Self-training.  Always fun.</blockquote>

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