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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 2263975" data-attributes="member: 9002">"For those of you that insist on DMs being forced to run a certain style of campaign, you are wrong. You only have to threaten the players with a day with a lot of encounters. Keeping things uncertain and interesting is the DMs job. What you are advocating is that the DM only have 1 or 2 encounters a day. Anything more is "unrealistic". That's boring. Sorry. In my experience, you get long days and you get short days. Sometimes, nothing happens, and at others, you get snowed under. The very threat of being snowed under will keep most casters in line. The others that don't usually gets eliminated fairly quickly"This doesn't really answer anything or convince me of anything.I'm not advocating anybody run their campaign a certain way.I'm certainly not advocating that every campaign have X number of encounters per day, where X is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 200.What I am saying is that, in many current and past campaigns, the vast majority of combat-heavy days involved 1-2 encounters, perhaps 3.  Majority, not all.  That's it.  That's a historical fact.  It's inarguable.  It's true.Which means that, in these campaigns, a class that excells at, well, 1-2, perhaps 3 encounters a day would have done extremely well -- disproportionatly well.The last thing I want to do is ANYONE telling me how to run my campaign, if it's using 1-2 encounters a day, 5 a day, 10 a week, 1 a week, whatever.That's why I don't want Psions around, because they may force me to do something I might not necessarily want to do.You say 1-2 encounters a day is "boring."  That's you.  I've played in campaigns like this in the past, and they were anything but boring.  That's a historical fact as well.  So that claim really doesn't get you very far.Also, note, that it's not enough to keep the PC's guessing about the number of combats per day.  If you have 2 encounters in a day, but perhaps 3-4 more are threatening (but don't materialize), it doesn't matter.  The Psion can just burn all the power points up quickly. 90% of the time it's the right choice.  The other times, the Psion needs to use psionic-equivalent scrolls, wands, and items to keep useful.  The point is, unless you really DO often have 3-4 combats a day, you are not really limiting the Psion that much.  "Threatening" only gets you so far, after all.  A threat ignored doesn't change behavior, after all.</blockquote>

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