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<blockquote data-quote="ourchair" data-source="post: 5210149" data-attributes="member: 85362">All and I mean ALL rolls are observed by me. I never ever let people&nbsp; roll without me.I don't let player argue over rolls, simply because I police rolling strongly. I empty my dice tin and then let people roll in there. No cocking, no slamming, no nuthin.I do also force players to reroll if a significant majority of players are of equal power level. So in the case of my games, I calibrate a narrow power margin, such as in a game where players got a +9, a +10 and a +11, the fourth player must re-roll until she got one of those numbers.In any case, I'm not trying to figure out how dice math works, or how much a + makes a difference from the base stats, or whether or not I should be throwing challenging encounters are, or what constitutes balance. I know well enough when I want to throw something crazy at them (I made a mixed party of level 2/3 fight a level 12 lamia.)I'm trying to figure out if there's a mathematically reliable way of computing 'challenging' based on the +s rating as expressed in creature level and encounter level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ourchair, post: 5210149, member: 85362"] All and I mean ALL rolls are observed by me. I never ever let people roll without me. I don't let player argue over rolls, simply because I police rolling strongly. I empty my dice tin and then let people roll in there. No cocking, no slamming, no nuthin. I do also force players to reroll if a significant majority of players are of equal power level. So in the case of my games, I calibrate a narrow power margin, such as in a game where players got a +9, a +10 and a +11, the fourth player must re-roll until she got one of those numbers. In any case, I'm not trying to figure out how dice math works, or how much a + makes a difference from the base stats, or whether or not I should be throwing challenging encounters are, or what constitutes balance. I know well enough when I want to throw something crazy at them (I made a mixed party of level 2/3 fight a level 12 lamia.) I'm trying to figure out if there's a mathematically reliable way of computing 'challenging' based on the +s rating as expressed in creature level and encounter level. [/QUOTE]

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