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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8437295" data-attributes="member: 29398">Or the DM throws balance to the wind, runs the combat straight-up, and lets things play out as they may.&nbsp; This would be a problem in 3e with its steep power curve, but the TSR editions and 5e are much more forgiving and allow a much wider &quot;CR range&quot; to be viable as foes or encounters.&nbsp; It's only in 4e that balance takes front-and-centre precedence over everything else.If I'm a player and in mid-combat I find myself busy thinking about the numeretic statblock of what I'm fighting rather than imagining the visuals of the situation then something's gone very wrong.I'm also not at all averse to trial-and-error or trial-by-guess as an in-fiction (and at-table!) learning method.&nbsp; I'm starting to get a sense that some here very much dislike trial-and-error...or, more precisely, dislike the potential for making errors and thus want all the parameters (even those unknown to the PCs) laid out up front.&nbsp; Sorry, but I've no sympathy here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8437295, member: 29398"] Or the DM throws balance to the wind, runs the combat straight-up, and lets things play out as they may. This would be a problem in 3e with its steep power curve, but the TSR editions and 5e are much more forgiving and allow a much wider "CR range" to be viable as foes or encounters. It's only in 4e that balance takes front-and-centre precedence over everything else. If I'm a player and in mid-combat I find myself busy thinking about the numeretic statblock of what I'm fighting rather than imagining the visuals of the situation then something's gone very wrong. I'm also not at all averse to trial-and-error or trial-by-guess as an in-fiction (and at-table!) learning method. I'm starting to get a sense that some here very much dislike trial-and-error...or, more precisely, dislike the potential for making errors and thus want all the parameters (even those unknown to the PCs) laid out up front. Sorry, but I've no sympathy here. [/QUOTE]

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