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<blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 4279460" data-attributes="member: 63763">Simple answer:If an &quot;encounter&quot; can be completed in a single round ... it isn't a threat. Unless they are unleashing a bunch of dailies, an encounter that ends in the suprise round/first round wasn't much of a threat ... odds are it involved a single opponent [as you have framed it] who would have to be either a solo monster or EXTREMELY high level to actually qualify as an appropriate level for the PCs. Now, if it was a single player on their own ... the XP might work out that it's a &quot;credible threat&quot;.If a town card is a credible threat to the people attack him ... he should be able to stand up to the players a bit more than just getting taken out silently. If he's basically a minion [which is what you want in guards so they can be silently disposed of during an infiltration, so they are only really dangerous if the players lose the element of suprise] he's not a credible threat if the party make it a situation where he is a minion that is both outnumbered and suprised and cut off from reinforcements.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WalterKovacs, post: 4279460, member: 63763"] Simple answer: If an "encounter" can be completed in a single round ... it isn't a threat. Unless they are unleashing a bunch of dailies, an encounter that ends in the suprise round/first round wasn't much of a threat ... odds are it involved a single opponent [as you have framed it] who would have to be either a solo monster or EXTREMELY high level to actually qualify as an appropriate level for the PCs. Now, if it was a single player on their own ... the XP might work out that it's a "credible threat". If a town card is a credible threat to the people attack him ... he should be able to stand up to the players a bit more than just getting taken out silently. If he's basically a minion [which is what you want in guards so they can be silently disposed of during an infiltration, so they are only really dangerous if the players lose the element of suprise] he's not a credible threat if the party make it a situation where he is a minion that is both outnumbered and suprised and cut off from reinforcements. [/QUOTE]

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