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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8997219" data-attributes="member: 23751">Look up the CR rules for encounters and encounter building. You don't according to the rules put up a CR 18 dragon to fight a 2nd level group.Of course it isn't.&nbsp; Nor should it be. If every game were designed that way it would be absolutely horrible. A very large number of people enjoy the way D&amp;D is designed.&nbsp; A large number enjoy games the way you like them designed.&nbsp; What we prefer isn't the &quot;good way&quot; to design a game and what we don't like doesn't become &quot;the bad way.&quot;&nbsp; And this is just objectively false. Even when I make my own adventure up WotC has done 95+% of the work for me.&nbsp; I'm not building monsters.&nbsp; I'm not building magic items.&nbsp; I didn't have to come up with the units of currency.&nbsp; The rules for handing combat have been done for me.&nbsp; The rules for non-combat encounters and interactions have been done for me.&nbsp; I don't have to create the races, classes, spells, items, feats, etc. What I need to do is select the monsters from a small list of acceptable NPCs, draw up the maps to whatever detail level I decide(detailed or vague), and come up with a plot(i.e. the king's advisor kidnaps the princess in order to force him to abdicate) that may or may not matter depending on what the players decide to do.&nbsp; Every once in a while I need to make a ruling if the rules don't cover a situation properly.This idea you keep putting forth that the DM for D&amp;D has to do all the work and WotC does nothing shows a profound lack of understanding about what it is that the DM actually does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8997219, member: 23751"] Look up the CR rules for encounters and encounter building. You don't according to the rules put up a CR 18 dragon to fight a 2nd level group. Of course it isn't. Nor should it be. If every game were designed that way it would be absolutely horrible. A very large number of people enjoy the way D&D is designed. A large number enjoy games the way you like them designed. What we prefer isn't the "good way" to design a game and what we don't like doesn't become "the bad way." And this is just objectively false. Even when I make my own adventure up WotC has done 95+% of the work for me. I'm not building monsters. I'm not building magic items. I didn't have to come up with the units of currency. The rules for handing combat have been done for me. The rules for non-combat encounters and interactions have been done for me. I don't have to create the races, classes, spells, items, feats, etc. What I need to do is select the monsters from a small list of acceptable NPCs, draw up the maps to whatever detail level I decide(detailed or vague), and come up with a plot(i.e. the king's advisor kidnaps the princess in order to force him to abdicate) that may or may not matter depending on what the players decide to do. Every once in a while I need to make a ruling if the rules don't cover a situation properly. This idea you keep putting forth that the DM for D&D has to do all the work and WotC does nothing shows a profound lack of understanding about what it is that the DM actually does. [/QUOTE]

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