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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6684202" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, that's...fine for you, I guess. But the really old way (that is, as allegedly advocated in the 1e DMG--please correct me if I'm wrong here!) strikes me as punishing people who enjoy both sides of the screen. And that's crappy.I doubt Encounters has hurt. Perhaps you're just in an area relatively flush with them? I can't really speak from experience, I don't frequent game stores (not that I dislike them, I just have reasons for not doing so). On the other hand, I'd be extremely surprised if 5e's encounter-building guidelines are responsible though; the vast majority of people who say anything about it at all tend to say "eh, I don't even check anymore" or "I've concluded on my own that it's not at all reliable."I've never actually had a "viking hat" DM, but I'll be honest, I have a somewhat morbid concern about having to deal with one--in part because of my personal interests WRT class and race. (The sheer number of people I interact with who have nothing but bile for my favorite of one, the other, or both does nothing to help these concerns.) When you compound this with the significant difficulty I have in even finding a group to play with at all, I hope it's a bit clearer why "casual play" isn't an option and "vote with your feet" is tantamount to having to refuse water in the desert because some jerkwad dumped cyanide into it.I...think we're using incredibly different--like, worlds apart--definitions of "adapt" here. To the point of I don't actually see how heavy (e.g. 5e) or hardline (e.g. 1e) DM Empowerment requires any amount of "adapting" at all. So...what do you mean by that term?</blockquote>

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