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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5808701" data-attributes="member: 42582">You say "important" as if that's a bad thing. Let's replace "important" with "giving the players the exciting encounters that they crave" - then how is it bad GMing to do that?Because you, as a player, may not be playing with an eye to changing the odds of future encounters. You may be playing with any eye to doing interesting stuff in this encounter, and changing the story of your PC and of the campaign world more generally. Your PC is not going to earn the moniker "the guard ganker" unless s/he ganks a few guards, and that story element is completely independent of how the GM balances or rebalances any subsquent encounter, on the fly or otherwise.Your reply, for me at least, reinforces my earlier reply to Rogue Agent - this concern about rebalancing encounters on the fly in order to maintain mechanical pace and excitement makes sense from the point of view of Gygaxian, operational play. But it is just wrong to project that one preference for play over D&D or RPG play as a whole, and imply that anyone who is running a game where the pleasure and the fun come from something else is making some sort of error.That's one way to look at it. I'd be happy to tell my players, if they asked, that I tweaked the encounter on the fly. (They might guess, too). In my own game I tend to see XP more as a campaign pacing thing than a reward, but if you play with XP as reward then getting two easy kills would certainly be a benefit of ganking the guards, even if the subsequent encounter is then rebalanced.This. Also, because you might think it matters whether or not your PC is a guard ganker. (This seems to have different implications for a paladin or a warpriest, compared to a rogue or assassin, for example.)My experiences are the same as yours.</blockquote>

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