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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8559449" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>The only issues I have with modern players are two fold:</p><p></p><p>1. Skyrimming: just plowing to the next quest. That each NPC is just a quest giver providing an assignment and then run off to that assignment rather than any actual interaction or trying to get more detail. Oh you need me to find the Sword of Nine Foxes in the Temple of Thulsa Doom? Ok, off we go, when there is actually a lot more and it's fine except it's every interaction with an NPC be it published module, homebrew etc. It's very video gamey.</p><p></p><p>2. Like others said, not thinking outside the box to solve the issues, every encounter is a fight to the last and every encounter must be perfectly balanced. How DARE you throw the PCs into an encounter at 3rd level with a Night Hag, CR 11 because she would kill them! Not every encounter is a combat encounter and if you treat every monster encounter as a combat encounter... maybe you deserve to die? Just saying. And before anyone comes in with a "but but but" kinda comment about that kind of encounter... never had a complaint and never underestimate your players. QUit looking at monsters as bags of HP to be whittled down to get XP and as challenging encounters of all types to experience, including roleplaying encounters, as XP. And IF you are doing milestone... why are you even worrying about it? Just play and calibrate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teitan, post: 8559449, member: 3457"] The only issues I have with modern players are two fold: 1. Skyrimming: just plowing to the next quest. That each NPC is just a quest giver providing an assignment and then run off to that assignment rather than any actual interaction or trying to get more detail. Oh you need me to find the Sword of Nine Foxes in the Temple of Thulsa Doom? Ok, off we go, when there is actually a lot more and it's fine except it's every interaction with an NPC be it published module, homebrew etc. It's very video gamey. 2. Like others said, not thinking outside the box to solve the issues, every encounter is a fight to the last and every encounter must be perfectly balanced. How DARE you throw the PCs into an encounter at 3rd level with a Night Hag, CR 11 because she would kill them! Not every encounter is a combat encounter and if you treat every monster encounter as a combat encounter... maybe you deserve to die? Just saying. And before anyone comes in with a "but but but" kinda comment about that kind of encounter... never had a complaint and never underestimate your players. QUit looking at monsters as bags of HP to be whittled down to get XP and as challenging encounters of all types to experience, including roleplaying encounters, as XP. And IF you are doing milestone... why are you even worrying about it? Just play and calibrate. [/QUOTE]
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