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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 9498397" data-attributes="member: 53082">If there was an &quot;encounter guru/czar&quot; at WOTC whose job was to check all encounters headed for publishing and validate them against the DMG guidelines we might have some real consistency. I am pretty sure this is not any one person's job though so in addition to different people working on creating all of these encounters there are also different editors paying varying levels of attention to this particular detail so my guess is that adherence will vary quite a bit from book to book.Using their own rules has never really been a strength with WOTC. Going back to 3.5 there were posts in this very forum going through the monster manuals and checking the math and discovering that many of the creatures did not adhere to their own published monster design rules. 4E had problems in some of the very first products with monsters being way too strong for their level. If your own staff, presumably working with the people who wrote these things, cannot follow them, how seriously should anyone else take them as rules/guidelines for their own campaign?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 9498397, member: 53082"] If there was an "encounter guru/czar" at WOTC whose job was to check all encounters headed for publishing and validate them against the DMG guidelines we might have some real consistency. I am pretty sure this is not any one person's job though so in addition to different people working on creating all of these encounters there are also different editors paying varying levels of attention to this particular detail so my guess is that adherence will vary quite a bit from book to book. Using their own rules has never really been a strength with WOTC. Going back to 3.5 there were posts in this very forum going through the monster manuals and checking the math and discovering that many of the creatures did not adhere to their own published monster design rules. 4E had problems in some of the very first products with monsters being way too strong for their level. If your own staff, presumably working with the people who wrote these things, cannot follow them, how seriously should anyone else take them as rules/guidelines for their own campaign? [/QUOTE]

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