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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6686808" data-attributes="member: 12731">Yes I know. I'm saying I have a hard time seeing how a fight can become exciting if it's easy enough that the PCs are up for seven more without a long rest.In my mind, this must mean the party spellcasters feel confident the combat will be won without having to spend much spell slots. Already from the start.In my experience, a fight that already from the start (not three or even one round in: in those fights the spellcasters will obviously cast a spell in round one) will looks as if cantrips and weapons will be enough ("let the fighters handle this one") is a fight that isn't worth our time to actually play out. Sure, those seven fights would chip away at hit points and resources. But it isn't worth taking the time to find out how much IMHO. There would be little or no risk of any character falling - my preference would be to simply say "you kill seven groups of three goblins each; deduct 10 hp each; now what?"If D&D always was like at level 1, then things would be different. Other rpgs, where any combat can turn deadly with sufficiently bad dice luck, doesn't suffer from this issue.But this "meta game" of resource preservation, where the worst outcome of a fight is "shucks, we spent two more slots and three hit dice than our budget!". I'm just not seeing it. Or rather, the appeal of it.I would be very interested in hearing more about your string of 14(!) encounters. (Assuming you brought up this as an example of a good fun play session, of course! <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=":)" /> ) I don't need exhaustive details, only enough to gauge a representative difficulty grade. Would it be convenient for you to pick one of those fourteen encounters that you feel would be a good example, and tell us a little about the foes featured, and also state how many adventurers are there and what their party level is?</blockquote>

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