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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5035365" data-attributes="member: 58197">*shrug* I didn't say anything about how steep or shallow the slope of the power curve should be, nor about how much random factors should affect outcomes. I also like the idea of high-level parties being sometimes threatened by low-level bad guys; but that's an entirely separate issue from what I proposed.(Unless you mean that a high-level party should be threatened by Type A low-level baddie but not by Type B low-level baddie. But in that case I contend that Type A is not really low-level at all; he's just mislabeled.)Edit: To clarify, when I talk about "setting expectations," I mean strictly from a design perspective. In an actual game, combat takes as long as it takes, and if that means the whole fight is decided in one round, so be it. But for a game designer, trying to figure out how much damage a given weapon or spell should do, it's essential to have a baseline of how long a typical fight is expected to run.</blockquote>