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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4963825" data-attributes="member: 31216">Our group is a "company" in the business sense -- we have only 8 mechs (a military company would be 12 mechs). Our personal PCs are the top ranks (although my PC sergeant just died).And your note about the level of diversity is an interesting one we can contrast with D&D. As a merc company, we are a hodge-podge of what could be scrounged together as a group. We take on missions of varying needs and approaches -- just like a D&D party does. Just as a D&D party needs a fighter, rogue, cleric, and wizard (or similar classes) to have something for any challenge, our BT merc company has a variety of mechs to have something for any challenge. Our group is a jack of all trades, master of none. (Essentially, my 100-ton mech sort of becomes the tank by default.)For those who like, or have to play under, a DM who uses tailored encounters, is the transition through the increasing levels vs. equal opponents smooth and seemless, or does it require willing suspension of disbelief?For instance, I've been in a tailored campaign where the first time we encountered orcs, we were 6th level, and the orcs (a couple hundred) were all special forces troops of 3rd-6th level. It felt contrived, to me, and I thought (and probably said), "Oh come on, can't we fight something that's not always an equal challenge to us?"Bullgrit</blockquote>