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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickles III" data-source="post: 6686419" data-attributes="member: 6793942">Throwing encounters at people rather then have them arise organically for either narrative or simulation reasons sounds like you are trying to hit a quota. Non combat encounters don't count as they don't drain resources in the same way (& you can easily have lots of these I agree) I find it very dull as does the person I first agreed with who I can't check now.Edit: CapNZapp  (sp)While this is true if you are trying to design encounters to be exciting that will be your priority & likely to be the outcome. If your overriding principle is to have your 6-8 attriotional encounters then that's what you are likely to get, with excitement incidental.  Also there can be very rubbish "exciting" encounters. I remember fighting a lone wight (or some other drainy undead)  in 3e days with who had the possibility of hitting & ruining someone's day but the fight was just standing round in a ring thumping him. So exciting if you like slot machine style gambling which I don't. I like that there can be textured encounters - running fights with superior foes or ambushing a couple of scouts (something 4e was terrible at) but they need to be there for a reason not just so there can be 6-8. Well I often get told that if I am not using 6-8 encounters the game is not properly balanced & I may be projecting my antipathy for that on to you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Sorry!</blockquote>

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