Um, you can take full advantage of a rule set one piece at a time, you know. You can have one encounter with 10 kobold minions, the next encounter with some kind of death trap and the third to be a battle on a bridge across a river of lava.Lizard said:Uhm...because I want to take full advantage of every rule set I use? If I run a 4e game, it's going to be full of pits over lava, hordes of minions, and rolling boulders.
You don't have to combine them every time. I have read the same information as you, and I haven't seen it stated or hinted at that you have to use everything at the same time, every encounter.