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<blockquote data-quote="Rykaar" data-source="post: 4127541" data-attributes="member: 56361">Again, if one option is always mechanically the best, combat after combat, then how dynamic and varied is combat itself?&nbsp; As a DM, if you present the party with a situation where they can approach it exactly the same way, time after time, the problem isn't that they have a standard response, it's that you've provided them with a standard encounter.Vary the types of creatures.&nbsp; Vary the numbers.&nbsp; Vary the directions by which the party is attacked, or from which they attack the enemy.&nbsp; Vary the terrain.&nbsp; Vary environmental effects.&nbsp; If you provide varied conditions for battle, I'm still having trouble seeing why the PC's will always use the same tactics.I'm not saying round by round, but rather encounter by encounter.&nbsp; Yes, within a particular combat, one option may be clearly the best choice.&nbsp; That's why I initially argued for being able to reuse a power!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;&nbsp; But my followup to that is vary the combats and hopefully the players won't get bored since they'll be able to do different stuff across a day's adventure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rykaar, post: 4127541, member: 56361"] Again, if one option is always mechanically the best, combat after combat, then how dynamic and varied is combat itself? As a DM, if you present the party with a situation where they can approach it exactly the same way, time after time, the problem isn't that they have a standard response, it's that you've provided them with a standard encounter. Vary the types of creatures. Vary the numbers. Vary the directions by which the party is attacked, or from which they attack the enemy. Vary the terrain. Vary environmental effects. If you provide varied conditions for battle, I'm still having trouble seeing why the PC's will always use the same tactics. I'm not saying round by round, but rather encounter by encounter. Yes, within a particular combat, one option may be clearly the best choice. That's why I initially argued for being able to reuse a power! :D But my followup to that is vary the combats and hopefully the players won't get bored since they'll be able to do different stuff across a day's adventure. [/QUOTE]

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