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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8100675" data-attributes="member: 12731">If I felt that official APs in any way were written with that play style in mind, I would be more forgiving of the system.As it is, my view is that you're playing the game one way. A perfectly good way, mind you. Just like I've said earlier, there is nothing inherent in the rules that's necessarily bad. Remember, I've GMd a sandbox of my own creation. For my own encounters, I wasn't even close to the relentless difficulty level of official adventures. And there Treat Wounds weren't such a big issue. With far fewer very hard encounters, the healing rate was much closer to the group's needs. (The Medicine rules were still far too cluttery for my taste, but that's a separate issue).But the complaint remains. Treat Wounds is poorly calibrated towards the play style I believe Adventure Paths are geared towards. (Remember, these adventures stick closely to the encounter building guidelines of the CRB, so it's not that it's simply a case of an adventure writer going off script. Also, these adventures are official product from the manufacturer itself, not some obscure third party product. They are clearly meant to showcase the system!)I consider it a real and profound problem if you like to keep things RAW, and are hesitant to explore house rules and variant rules.Why couldn't the team writing encounter guidelines and the team writing Treat Wounds talk and play well together?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 8100675, member: 12731"] If I felt that official APs in any way were written with that play style in mind, I would be more forgiving of the system. As it is, my view is that you're playing the game one way. [I]A perfectly good way, mind you.[/I] [SIZE=3]Just like I've said earlier, there is nothing inherent in the rules that's necessarily bad. Remember, I've GMd a sandbox of my own creation. For my own encounters, I wasn't even close to the relentless difficulty level of official adventures. And there Treat Wounds weren't such a big issue. With far fewer very hard encounters, the healing rate was much closer to the group's needs. (The Medicine rules were still far too cluttery for my taste, but that's a separate issue).[/SIZE] But the complaint remains. Treat Wounds is poorly calibrated towards the play style I believe Adventure Paths are geared towards. (Remember, these adventures stick closely to the encounter building guidelines of the CRB, so it's not that it's simply a case of an adventure writer going off script. Also, these adventures are [I]official product[/I] from the manufacturer itself, not some obscure third party product. They are clearly meant to showcase the system!) I consider it a real and profound problem if you like to keep things RAW, and are hesitant to explore house rules and variant rules. Why couldn't the team writing encounter guidelines and the team writing Treat Wounds talk and play well together? [/QUOTE]

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