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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6049790" data-attributes="member: 17106">No.I've also never DMed 2e (only played). Thus, the &quot;AFAICT&quot;.I think you're missing my point. My point is not that any edition of D&amp;D makes it too hard to design a &quot;balanced encounter&quot;. My point twofold: one, that balanced, challenging encounters are not the goal of D&amp;D. To quote [MENTION=957]BryonD[/MENTION] :&quot;When Perseus fought Medusa the math didn’t work and the combat was really swingy.Perseus was a hero.The great stories are never about balanced encounters.&quot;Trying to make D&amp;D about encounters of any sort or trying to create some sort of balance based on them is an endeavor inherently doomed to fail.The second point is that even if a particular DM wants to balance an encounter in a certain way for some reason, the rules for encounter design are useless. In a truly open-ended game, it's impossible to account for all the possibilities of how different characters will interact with each other or with the world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6049790, member: 17106"] No. I've also never DMed 2e (only played). Thus, the "AFAICT". I think you're missing my point. My point is not that any edition of D&D makes it too hard to design a "balanced encounter". My point twofold: one, that balanced, challenging encounters are not the goal of D&D. To quote [MENTION=957]BryonD[/MENTION] : "When Perseus fought Medusa the math didn’t work and the combat was really swingy. Perseus was a hero. The great stories are never about balanced encounters." Trying to make D&D about encounters of any sort or trying to create some sort of balance based on them is an endeavor inherently doomed to fail. The second point is that even if a particular DM wants to balance an encounter in a certain way for some reason, the rules for encounter design are useless. In a truly open-ended game, it's impossible to account for all the possibilities of how different characters will interact with each other or with the world. [/QUOTE]

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