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<blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 4158629" data-attributes="member: 2656"><p>Unlike the OP, I would be delighted if the PCs *can't* buff outside combat. Buffing was always useful in D&D, but it reached ridiculous heights in 3e, in many campaigns becoming a necessity as encounters were designed to assume a fully buffed party, and would TPK an unbuffed one.</p><p></p><p>So prebuffing is an expectation from 3e habits, but I really hope that most players will enjoy or at least accept what seems to be the 4e scenario, where there are much less buffing effects, that almost all take effect during an encounter rather than before it. The power curve of 4e is shallower in rising, but starts higher. 4e PCs, especially the martial types, have more class power-based options and don't need buffs as badly as 3e ones did.</p><p></p><p>Ideally, this should reduce the swinginess of encounters, and take some of the stress out of DMing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aenghus, post: 4158629, member: 2656"] Unlike the OP, I would be delighted if the PCs *can't* buff outside combat. Buffing was always useful in D&D, but it reached ridiculous heights in 3e, in many campaigns becoming a necessity as encounters were designed to assume a fully buffed party, and would TPK an unbuffed one. So prebuffing is an expectation from 3e habits, but I really hope that most players will enjoy or at least accept what seems to be the 4e scenario, where there are much less buffing effects, that almost all take effect during an encounter rather than before it. The power curve of 4e is shallower in rising, but starts higher. 4e PCs, especially the martial types, have more class power-based options and don't need buffs as badly as 3e ones did. Ideally, this should reduce the swinginess of encounters, and take some of the stress out of DMing. [/QUOTE]
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