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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1490806" data-attributes="member: 9254">Not against, but for established campaigns (like most of the people here seem to be running) the combats need to be justified.&nbsp; IMC the majority of &quot;random&quot; encounters are CR3-8 (animals, bandits, random beasties) for rationality (I hate the games where one year the encounters on a road are rats and wolves and the next are demons &amp; tarrasques).&nbsp; Since my players have 9 highly recognizable 13-15th level characters including a huge dire wolf mount and an Ogre paladin, most of the humanoid and animal encounters don't even bother.&nbsp; Only the few non-sentient (and cocky) beasts and aberrations will try.&nbsp; The party is well known in most of the game's cities and have ties to church, government, guilds, trade houses, and the black market.&nbsp; You have to be motivated or ignorant to try anything and few ignorant opponents will be a challenge.&nbsp; My game runs ~6 hours and there's roughly 1 combat each session.&nbsp; At their level and number of characters, the fights take forever or are over in an instant.&nbsp; More importantly, the party has learned to avoid irrelevant encounters.&nbsp; I'd planned on having a series of running battles last session but they managed to avoid the trigger events and talked their way out of the unavoidable situation.Which basically means outside of &quot;dungeons&quot; they don't fight that often.&nbsp; Of course, the fight last session was 4 max HD elder elementals and 8 frost giant mummies so it was a nifty fight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 1490806, member: 9254"] Not against, but for established campaigns (like most of the people here seem to be running) the combats need to be justified. IMC the majority of "random" encounters are CR3-8 (animals, bandits, random beasties) for rationality (I hate the games where one year the encounters on a road are rats and wolves and the next are demons & tarrasques). Since my players have 9 highly recognizable 13-15th level characters including a huge dire wolf mount and an Ogre paladin, most of the humanoid and animal encounters don't even bother. Only the few non-sentient (and cocky) beasts and aberrations will try. The party is well known in most of the game's cities and have ties to church, government, guilds, trade houses, and the black market. You have to be motivated or ignorant to try anything and few ignorant opponents will be a challenge. My game runs ~6 hours and there's roughly 1 combat each session. At their level and number of characters, the fights take forever or are over in an instant. More importantly, the party has learned to avoid irrelevant encounters. I'd planned on having a series of running battles last session but they managed to avoid the trigger events and talked their way out of the unavoidable situation. Which basically means outside of "dungeons" they don't fight that often. Of course, the fight last session was 4 max HD elder elementals and 8 frost giant mummies so it was a nifty fight. [/QUOTE]

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