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<blockquote data-quote="Martin Olarin" data-source="post: 485173" data-attributes="member: 2349">Just wanted to say I think Dawn hit the nail on the head here.&nbsp; Many DMs can come up with challanging encounters and many can randomly beat up on their players but few have the stamina and attention to detail needed to make the punishment seem part of something larger and thus meaningful.&nbsp; What Nem does requires alot of up front work and alot of on going note taking just to keep track of details and timelines.&nbsp; Just last session we spent a good 2 hours (or so it seemed <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=":)" />) verifying how long we spent doing something.&nbsp; Being the whiner I am I started to complain until Nemm gently reminded me that timelines are important - he didn't say it was because something horrific was happening elsewhere but I sure thats why...In anycase, I thought this line of discussion was started by someone who thought the party's failure to accomplish any of our major goals would be frustrating but others seem to be addressing the diffulculty of individual encounters.&nbsp; None of Nemms encounters have seemed unreasonably diffulcult to me and, quite frankly, I wouldn't want them to be easy.&nbsp; Futhermore, Nemm is pretty good in accepting opinions on rule interpretations when one interpretation over another may make things more diffulcult then they should be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Martin Olarin, post: 485173, member: 2349"] Just wanted to say I think Dawn hit the nail on the head here. Many DMs can come up with challanging encounters and many can randomly beat up on their players but few have the stamina and attention to detail needed to make the punishment seem part of something larger and thus meaningful. What Nem does requires alot of up front work and alot of on going note taking just to keep track of details and timelines. Just last session we spent a good 2 hours (or so it seemed :)) verifying how long we spent doing something. Being the whiner I am I started to complain until Nemm gently reminded me that timelines are important - he didn't say it was because something horrific was happening elsewhere but I sure thats why... In anycase, I thought this line of discussion was started by someone who thought the party's failure to accomplish any of our major goals would be frustrating but others seem to be addressing the diffulculty of individual encounters. None of Nemms encounters have seemed unreasonably diffulcult to me and, quite frankly, I wouldn't want them to be easy. Futhermore, Nemm is pretty good in accepting opinions on rule interpretations when one interpretation over another may make things more diffulcult then they should be. [/QUOTE]

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