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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6319021" data-attributes="member: 42582">I play D&D on average for 4 hours every 3 weeks, and very rarely have fewer than two weeks between sessions.If dramatic things aren't happening every session, I would regard that as "poorly paced and kind of monotonous". I can be bored easily enough on my own time without getting my friends together to share the experience!Many of the fights in my 4e game, particularly since paragon tier, I've written up and posted on these boards. The PCs have fought <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/tabletop-gaming/299440-exploration-scenarios-my-experiment-last-sunday.html" target="_blank">undead spiders</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/tabletop-gaming/301282-actual-play-examples-balance-between-fiction-mechanics.html" target="_blank">a water weird</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/tabletop-gaming/313724-actual-play-pcs-successfully-negotiated-kas.html" target="_blank">Kas</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-pathfinder/319168-pcs-defeat-calastryx-get-up-some-other-hijinks.html" target="_blank">Calastryx</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-pathfinder/319889-doppelganger-mayhem-long-lead-up.html" target="_blank">some doppelgangers who ambushed them</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-pathfinder/324018-wizard-pc-dies-returns-invoker.html" target="_blank">an army of hobgoblins</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-pathfinder/330383-underdark-adventure-demons-beholders-elementals-hydra.html" target="_blank">undead, beholders, elementals, [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?332755-PCs-bring-destruction-down-upon-the-duergar]demons</a> and <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335974-I-ran-my-first-Epic-session-last-Sunday" target="_blank">other</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335974-I-ran-my-first-Epic-session-last-Sunday/page2&p=6125246&viewfull=1#post6125246" target="_blank">things</a>, including <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335974-I-ran-my-first-Epic-session-last-Sunday/page2&p=6140228&viewfull=1#post6140228" target="_blank">drow</a>, in the Underdark, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?340383-PCs-kill-Ometh-leading-to-open-season-on-the-Raven-Queen-s-name" target="_blank">an alien exarch of the Raven Queen</a>, [/url] <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?342615-PCs-defeat-Miska-but-relinquish-the-Crystal-of-the-Ebon-Flame" target="_blank">Miska the Wolf-Spider</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?353496-First-time-godslayers-PCs-kill-Torog" target="_blank">Torog and his shrivers</a>, and an <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?355600-Session-report-(Apect-of)-Vecna-defeated-demon-bargained-with" target="_blank">Aspect of Vecna</a>.Monotony hasn't been an issue, and dramatic recoveries - whether by the fighter, or some other PC - are part of the fun (the Calastryx episode provides one of the best examples). Likewise other dramatic events, like the ranger-cleric grabbing the invoker to save him as both were falling down a pit created by Torog, or the paladin diving down after Vecna like Gandalf after the Balrog in The Two Towers movie.The idea that recurrent excitement in a game is in fact monotonous I find almost contradictory. The calming monotony is provided by real life on either side of these events. (That's not to say that artistic works like (say) Andy Warhol's movies are of no worth; but I don't feel the need to reproduce that sort of experience in an RPG.)</blockquote>

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