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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AntiStateQuixote" data-source="post: 6864378" data-attributes="member: 30770">I disagree. Setting up "the dungeon" is absolutely a necessary part of making D&D interesting and the environment should play a part. Flamestrike went further than I typically go, but I absolutely use the environment. PC adventurers invading a kobold lair (for example) will have to deal with the fact that kobolds have maze-like warrens of small tunnels filled with traps as part of their defenses.Not quite. Every option you add to the PC toolbox increases their power. Those options are not additive; they compound. If they're not countered by similar tweaks for the monsters, then yes, fights will become much, much easier.With regard to the 2x and 3x deadly encounters: I don't see how it's possible. If I recall you had several monsters with save-or-suck abilities. Did every PC really make every single save against the hezrou stench (within 10'; DC 14 CON save or poisoned), chasme drone (within 30'; DC 12 CON save or fall unconscious), and vrock screech (within 20'; DC 14 CON save or stunned)? Failing any one of those several saves takes the PC out for at least a round (well, poisoned doesn't take him out, but does suck for him). The demon horde should have chewed them up. If the DM didn't use those abilities then s/he didn't get much punch out of what those monsters bring to the table.The concentration house rule is a huge factor for the PCs, and it's yet another of the bits that is multiplicative, not additive, to the PCs' power. The misplay of banish also had a big impact if it took 4 monsters out of the fight with a total of 4 actions and no concentration.</blockquote>

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