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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invokethehojo" data-source="post: 4273582" data-attributes="member: 62525">After I got the books a couple weeks ago I ran a few demos at my local store with one of my goals being to discover how hard to make encounters (I don't like multiple easy encounters between extended rests much, so I don't do this very often).Here's what I learned.Daily and Encounter powers are awesome... but they frequently miss.  Players get pissed if they feel like they only get to use a cool power once in awhile and it usually misses.  Of course, there are a few powers that have effects on misses or arent spent on a missAn encounter of equivalent level to the party is a little boring IMO, I'm sure you could run several in a row just fineAn encounter of 1.5 times the party's level is challenging, 1 or 2 in a row would be exciting.An encoutner of twice the party's level is hard as hell and will kill some if not all the characters.  A little less difficult and it would be fine as a once per extended rest encounter</blockquote>