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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 5992208" data-attributes="member: 27160">..and the encounters your players end up having will still be easy, average or tough. Honestly, what is it with GMs apparently wanting to be ignorant of the likely difficulty of the situations they present to the players? Nothing says you can't present scenarios of almost certain death (or of trivial cakewalkism) if you really want to - but why do some folk want to be surprised by that sort of thing? I don't get it.Well, I would read that as &quot;Since you can’t predict the path your players will choose through an adventure, you can’t really design an adventure around this daily target and expect things to actually pan out that way&quot;. As long as you don't expect things to necessarily pan out according to your plan, I'd say you're golden using the daily amounts. What the actual value is of using them I would say is highly debatable, but I would say you are quite free to do so, regardless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 5992208, member: 27160"] ..and the encounters your players end up having will [I]still[/I] be easy, average or tough. Honestly, what is it with GMs apparently [B][I]wanting[/I][/B] to be ignorant of the likely difficulty of the situations they present to the players? Nothing says you can't present scenarios of almost certain death (or of trivial cakewalkism) if you really want to - but why do some folk want to be [U]surprised[/U] by that sort of thing? I don't get it. Well, I would read that as "Since you can’t predict the path your players will choose through an adventure, you can’t really design an adventure around this daily target [I]and expect things to actually pan out that way[/I]". As long as you don't expect things to necessarily pan out according to your plan, I'd say you're golden using the daily amounts. What the actual [B][I]value[/I][/B] is of using them I would say is highly debatable, but I would say you are quite free to do so, regardless. [/QUOTE]

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