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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8689865" data-attributes="member: 16814">No to all and I don't have the same problems one bit. [USER=42040]@Retreater[/USER] -- I'm curious why you've only listed fudging mechanics/prep at the point of the encounter and haven't at all considered that the encounter design/adventure design considerations are the problem.&nbsp; As I say above, I will not use any of the ideas you list in my games but I also don't have your problem, and I still have challenging and dangerous encounters that occasionally result in TPKs.&nbsp; You do this by making sure that if you're breaking from a balanced encounter/design expectation that you foreshadow this clearly.&nbsp; And don't always have monsters who's goals are 'reduce PCs to death.'&nbsp; This appears to be a problem with how you think things &quot;ought&quot; to be running headlong into what doing that creates as &quot;is&quot; happening.&nbsp; You need to adjust way further upstream than fudging combat mechanic results.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8689865, member: 16814"] No to all and I don't have the same problems one bit. [USER=42040]@Retreater[/USER] -- I'm curious why you've only listed fudging mechanics/prep at the point of the encounter and haven't at all considered that the encounter design/adventure design considerations are the problem. As I say above, I will not use any of the ideas you list in my games but I also don't have your problem, and I still have challenging and dangerous encounters that occasionally result in TPKs. You do this by making sure that if you're breaking from a balanced encounter/design expectation that you foreshadow this clearly. And don't always have monsters who's goals are 'reduce PCs to death.' This appears to be a problem with how you think things "ought" to be running headlong into what doing that creates as "is" happening. You need to adjust way further upstream than fudging combat mechanic results. [/QUOTE]

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