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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5996641" data-attributes="member: 22424">I believe that that's intentional.Mearls addressed this in one of the &quot;Legends &amp; Lore&quot; columns ages ago (before Monte joined WotC and took over the column). Basically, his notion is that the modular bits will somehow modify the &quot;XP budget&quot; for designing adventures and/or encounters. So, if you choose not to use the B/S module, the recommendation will be to build weaker encounters to compensate.I have no idea how that will be reflected in published adventures. Perhaps either &quot;adapting the adventure&quot; sidebars for different module configurations, or maybe they'll indicate that published adventures of level X will use a budget of Y per encounter, and so enable DMs to adjust the level of adventures they buy according to the budget they themselves use?(It's also possible, of course, that they've changed their approach since then.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5996641, member: 22424"] I believe that that's intentional. Mearls addressed this in one of the "Legends & Lore" columns ages ago (before Monte joined WotC and took over the column). Basically, his notion is that the modular bits will somehow modify the "XP budget" for designing adventures and/or encounters. So, if you choose not to use the B/S module, the recommendation will be to build weaker encounters to compensate. I have no idea how that will be reflected in published adventures. Perhaps either "adapting the adventure" sidebars for different module configurations, or maybe they'll indicate that published adventures of level X will use a budget of Y per encounter, and so enable DMs to adjust the level of adventures they buy according to the budget they themselves use? (It's also possible, of course, that they've changed their approach since then.) [/QUOTE]

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