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<blockquote data-quote="Warhammer: 3025" data-source="post: 5291878" data-attributes="member: 93594"><p>I'm a new GM (both to GMing in general and to Star Wars Saga in particular), and am having trouble building challenging encounters that I can reasonably expect my players to handle. The previous combat encounters I have put my players through have been relative cakewalks, with no major damage being taken by the players (who are all level 1) and the enemies being cut down in relative short order. The Gamemaster-specific section in to core rulebook is little help in this area (I almost wish there had been a separate book to cover GM-specific issues, like Dungeons & Dragons has). </p><p></p><p>I am anticipating the next session to be combat-heavy, culminating in a sort of boss encounter with a large creature (technically speaking, a Huge-sized creature), but am worried that such a beast might be going too far the other direction, and will be an unfair stacking-of-the-deck situation.</p><p></p><p>Any help how to make appropriately-leveled encounters would be much appreciated!</p><p></p><p>P.S. I'm certain that there have been many, many similar threads before this one, but as I'm not a subscriber to the forum, I cannot access the search function to look for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warhammer: 3025, post: 5291878, member: 93594"] I'm a new GM (both to GMing in general and to Star Wars Saga in particular), and am having trouble building challenging encounters that I can reasonably expect my players to handle. The previous combat encounters I have put my players through have been relative cakewalks, with no major damage being taken by the players (who are all level 1) and the enemies being cut down in relative short order. The Gamemaster-specific section in to core rulebook is little help in this area (I almost wish there had been a separate book to cover GM-specific issues, like Dungeons & Dragons has). I am anticipating the next session to be combat-heavy, culminating in a sort of boss encounter with a large creature (technically speaking, a Huge-sized creature), but am worried that such a beast might be going too far the other direction, and will be an unfair stacking-of-the-deck situation. Any help how to make appropriately-leveled encounters would be much appreciated! P.S. I'm certain that there have been many, many similar threads before this one, but as I'm not a subscriber to the forum, I cannot access the search function to look for them. [/QUOTE]
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