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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4357539" data-attributes="member: 43019"><p>KarinsDad, as far as I can tell you're making some assumptions of the designers that aren't true.</p><p></p><p>One big thing that would help you understand is that you're intended to fight a whole section of dungeon at once, often enough.</p><p></p><p>That is to say, maybe the doors are open or closed, but when you fireball one section, you may draw everyone who can hear it. In one of my combats last night, the very first thing that happened is reinforcements got called in from the next two nearest rooms. They'd dealt with three rooms worth of stuff, found a magic item, and were actively looking for a ritual scroll to recover... </p><p></p><p>The encounter powers exist to be used almost every encounter. You can certainly press onwards, and you'll see that many of the wotc playtest reports they do so, but barring strings of easy encounters, you should need to catch your breath every now and then. Or just have a fair distance between encounters. Like not next door. Placing big encounter areas at least five minutes apart is an easy solution for letting people get their powers back <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keterys, post: 4357539, member: 43019"] KarinsDad, as far as I can tell you're making some assumptions of the designers that aren't true. One big thing that would help you understand is that you're intended to fight a whole section of dungeon at once, often enough. That is to say, maybe the doors are open or closed, but when you fireball one section, you may draw everyone who can hear it. In one of my combats last night, the very first thing that happened is reinforcements got called in from the next two nearest rooms. They'd dealt with three rooms worth of stuff, found a magic item, and were actively looking for a ritual scroll to recover... The encounter powers exist to be used almost every encounter. You can certainly press onwards, and you'll see that many of the wotc playtest reports they do so, but barring strings of easy encounters, you should need to catch your breath every now and then. Or just have a fair distance between encounters. Like not next door. Placing big encounter areas at least five minutes apart is an easy solution for letting people get their powers back :) [/QUOTE]
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