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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9375863" data-attributes="member: 6801228">But, if you do that, then you not only lose a lot of design space, you lose a lot of what people play the game to do. Look, I get DnD is not all combat all the time... but punching in a demon's teeth and saving a town is satisfying. And if you design the game around the idea that "if you are in combat, something has gone horribly wrong" there are only two ways to do it. 1) Cthulhu - Combat is a fail state, and the game is focused on investigations and/or politics2) Fantasy Vietnam - Combat is a fail state, because you gave your enemy time to respond instead of killing them when they had no chance to retaliate. And both those style of games have their place... but neither would feel like DnD to me. They are not what I am looking for when I go to craft a DnD adventure, which is far more of a balance between the various elements.</blockquote>