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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5721294" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, a guideline would become less accurate the further you depart from baseline assumptions, wouldn't it?  That would make the guideline less and less accurate.  Now, I totally agree, you certainly CAN depart from these guidelines.  Too true.  But, the recognition has to be there that that is precisely what you did.  You've departed from the guidelines, and the further you move from those guidelines, the further your game departs from the baseline assumptions of the game itself.This should be pretty obvious I would think.  What part of "guideline" am I failing to understand.---------See, but this is what I could never,  ever understand in your games DannyA.  You claim that you regularly had six or more encounters between rest sessions, never used any healing magic items and had no cleric.  All while playing Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.How in the hell were you not dying left, right and center?  There's something in this equation that just doesn't add up at all.  That is a meat grinder adventure with tons of very, very difficult encounters which can easily mow down PC's.So, I do totally believe you when you say you did that.  But, there's more to that story, there has to be.  Either you were playing with huge groups that were very high powered, or your DM was fudging nearly every encounter.  I can't think of how else you got that result.There are too many encounters for you to be able to do that over the long run.  The odds are too high.</blockquote>

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