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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7171228" data-attributes="member: 996">Doesn't mean they can't be placed, there's just not much point to going through the motions of resolving them.&nbsp; You hand-wave the former, and offer a Skill Challenge to avoid/escape the latter.&nbsp;The possibility of them is much more useful than actually playing through them, yes.&nbsp; One thing BA has done (and murky encounter guidelines abet it), is made it more plausible to play through a badly mismatched encounter, because the trivial encounter could still result in the odd hit/crit &amp; minor HP attrition, and the PCs theoretically have a chance to do something even when wildly overmatched.&nbsp; Mostly likely the trivial fight will be trivial and the overwhelming one a TPK, of course... but sometimes the designed-to-be-trivial fight will hit harder than planned, or the overwhelming one turn out to be a paper-CR tiger.&nbsp;Reaching?&nbsp; Probably.&nbsp;&nbsp; Social media, meetup, play videos and the like were already out there when Encounters got rolling, and I did see the heightened interest at that time.&nbsp; Now we have the surge in interest in boardgames going, as well, drawing more folks into the FLGS.&nbsp; We no longer have the profound negativity of the edition war mitigating against all that, either.&nbsp; So, yeah, it's fair to think more people might be trying (or, especially, returning to) D&amp;D lately.Retaining?&nbsp; OT1H, I'm not seeing the phenomenon of new players becoming DMs in the next Encounters season, or an Encounters table of new players becoming a regular table, then spinning off to a home game, anymore.&nbsp; OTOH, I'm not seeing returning players getting confused or turned off and bouncing to Pathfinder so much, either.&nbsp;The thing about slow deaths is they take a long time. &nbsp;That's at least /some/ support.&nbsp;&nbsp; There were 4e tables that bought no books and all shared one DDI, so you did your bit more than they did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Playing is supporting, especially participating in organized play - at least, if your attitude is positive.&nbsp;I agree.&nbsp; 5e seems like it could very easily be the last ed of D&amp;D.&nbsp; Then again:&nbsp; After 2e had been out for a bit, I felt like it hadn't really been that necessary.&nbsp; I certainly felt like there'd be no need for rolling revs after D&amp;D went all open-source as d20.&nbsp; So, I'm used to being wrong on that topic.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> &nbsp;They can even /also/ play those games, in addition to playing the current ed.&nbsp; For instance, an old ed as a home campaign, and the current version in organized pay.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7171228, member: 996"] Doesn't mean they can't be placed, there's just not much point to going through the motions of resolving them. You hand-wave the former, and offer a Skill [i]Challenge[/i] to avoid/escape the latter. The possibility of them is much more useful than actually playing through them, yes. One thing BA has done (and murky encounter guidelines abet it), is made it more plausible to play through a badly mismatched encounter, because the trivial encounter could still result in the odd hit/crit & minor HP attrition, and the PCs theoretically have a chance to do something even when wildly overmatched. Mostly likely the trivial fight will be trivial and the overwhelming one a TPK, of course... but sometimes the designed-to-be-trivial fight will hit harder than planned, or the overwhelming one turn out to be a paper-CR tiger. Reaching? Probably. Social media, meetup, play videos and the like were already out there when Encounters got rolling, and I did see the heightened interest at that time. Now we have the surge in interest in boardgames going, as well, drawing more folks into the FLGS. We no longer have the profound negativity of the edition war mitigating against all that, either. So, yeah, it's fair to think more people might be trying (or, especially, returning to) D&D lately. Retaining? OT1H, I'm not seeing the phenomenon of new players becoming DMs in the next Encounters season, or an Encounters table of new players becoming a regular table, then spinning off to a home game, anymore. OTOH, I'm not seeing returning players getting confused or turned off and bouncing to Pathfinder so much, either. The thing about slow deaths is they take a long time. That's at least /some/ support. There were 4e tables that bought no books and all shared one DDI, so you did your bit more than they did. ;) Playing is supporting, especially participating in organized play - at least, if your attitude is positive. I agree. 5e seems like it could very easily be the last ed of D&D. Then again: After 2e had been out for a bit, I felt like it hadn't really been that necessary. I certainly felt like there'd be no need for rolling revs after D&D went all open-source as d20. So, I'm used to being wrong on that topic. ;) They can even /also/ play those games, in addition to playing the current ed. For instance, an old ed as a home campaign, and the current version in organized pay. [/QUOTE]

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