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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6594680" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I don't understand the bolded part, feel free to restate it if you think it's important. RE: your second paragraph, I'm not referring to a style that expects all encounters to be exactly the same. I'm referring to a style that expects the DM to build encounters according to the encounter budgets listed in the Basic Rules and the DMG. E.g. rarely make Deadly encounters, follow the &quot;adventuring day&quot; XP budget guidelines, not use monsters with a higher CR than the player level. People with such expectations exist, at least on the Internet (and presumably therefore in real life). Such people should know that I have no intention of using those rules, and that's the primary thing I intend to communicate by saying I believe in Combat As War.I think you could conceivably build tailored encounters with a CaW mindset, but I agree with you that CaW fans will hear about your hypothetical 90 HD dragon and think, &quot;Hey, that sounds cool. Maybe I should do that.&quot; It was certainly my reaction. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6594680, member: 6787650"] I don't understand the bolded part, feel free to restate it if you think it's important. RE: your second paragraph, I'm not referring to a style that expects all encounters to be exactly the same. I'm referring to a style that expects the DM to build encounters according to the encounter budgets listed in the Basic Rules and the DMG. E.g. rarely make Deadly encounters, follow the "adventuring day" XP budget guidelines, not use monsters with a higher CR than the player level. People with such expectations exist, at least on the Internet (and presumably therefore in real life). Such people should know that I have no intention of using those rules, and that's the primary thing I intend to communicate by saying I believe in Combat As War. I think you could conceivably build tailored encounters with a CaW mindset, but I agree with you that CaW fans will hear about your hypothetical 90 HD dragon and think, "Hey, that sounds cool. Maybe I should do that." It was certainly [I]my[/I] reaction. :) [/QUOTE]

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