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<blockquote data-quote="GX.Sigma" data-source="post: 6289895" data-attributes="member: 6690511">I could not agree more, and I haven't been able to describe this feeling with words until you posted this, so thank you.However, I think the key word in pemerton's post above was &quot;boring.&quot; 4e is designed such that a single encounter is pretty much a full game by itself, taking at least an hour of gameplay. Therefore, if an encounter isn't a close fight, it's a gigantic waste of everyone's precious time--especially if they don't have their encounter powers back. Imagine a full hour of everyone going &quot;I attack... miss... I attack... hit...&quot; until they realize they're getting pretty low on hp and need to run. In a system like D&amp;D Next, that encounter would work (&quot;He comes back with 10 wights and casts cloudkill.&quot; &quot;I'm dead.&quot; &quot;I get the f*** outta there.&quot;). In 4e, it just doesn't.So this conversation isn't really about one DMing style vs. another, it's about how 4e implies/requires only a certain subset of DMing styles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GX.Sigma, post: 6289895, member: 6690511"] I could not agree more, and I haven't been able to describe this feeling with words until you posted this, so thank you. However, I think the key word in pemerton's post above was "boring." 4e is designed such that a single encounter is pretty much a full game by itself, taking at least an hour of gameplay. Therefore, if an encounter isn't a close fight, it's a gigantic waste of everyone's precious time--especially if they don't have their encounter powers back. Imagine a full hour of everyone going "I attack... miss... I attack... hit..." until they realize they're getting pretty low on hp and need to run. In a system like D&D Next, that encounter would work ("He comes back with 10 wights and casts cloudkill." "I'm dead." "I get the f*** outta there."). In 4e, it just doesn't. So this conversation isn't really about one DMing style vs. another, it's about how 4e implies/requires only a certain subset of DMing styles. [/QUOTE]

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