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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8726162" data-attributes="member: 907">Almost certainly not, no. I was/am a player in Age of Ashes so I didn't get a look at the machinery so to speak, but it definitely leaned toward single tough encounters – but not that tough.Another problem is the mandate from On High that a 6-volume AP should take a group of PCs from level 1 to 20, as well as stick around for a while at level 20 (so you'll actually play at 20th). This is to be done in 6 volumes of ~64 pages (APs are 96 pages, but about a third are monster stats, magic items, articles, and such). That means 3-4 levels per volume, and 4 levels in 64 pages only leaves about 16 pages per level. Since the default leveling method is XP mainly for encounters, that means you need a lot of encounters, and more difficult encounters mean more XP per page. (Combat encounters are also a convenient way of stuffing more XP into the adventure, because &quot;4 dire wolves, see Bestiary page 300something&quot; doesn't take up much room).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8726162, member: 907"] Almost certainly not, no. I was/am a player in Age of Ashes so I didn't get a look at the machinery so to speak, but it definitely leaned toward single tough encounters – but not [B]that[/B] tough. Another problem is the mandate from On High that a 6-volume AP should take a group of PCs from level 1 to 20, as well as stick around for a while at level 20 (so you'll actually play at 20th). This is to be done in 6 volumes of ~64 pages (APs are 96 pages, but about a third are monster stats, magic items, articles, and such). That means 3-4 levels per volume, and 4 levels in 64 pages only leaves about 16 pages per level. Since the default leveling method is XP mainly for encounters, that means you need a lot of encounters, and more difficult encounters mean more XP per page. (Combat encounters are also a convenient way of stuffing more XP into the adventure, because "4 dire wolves, see Bestiary page 300something" doesn't take up much room). [/QUOTE]

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