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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6182235" data-attributes="member: 2303">&quot;Mud Sorcerers Tomb&quot; in the original is much like the Tomb of Horrors - there is combat, but not a lot of it.The basic problem with not having combat siloing has to do with the micro-game aspect of combat in DnD. That is, combat is expected, and when it happens it pushes most other activities to the side. Now, an interesting combat scene has some kind of mcguffin or objective besides &quot;do to them before they do to us&quot;. As soon as there is such a side objective, the entire game changes, and suddenly what would ordinarily be non-combat powers are viable. This is nice. Problem is, a completely (or even largely) combat-incompetent character ties the gamemasters and adventure designer's hand - suddenly there can be no battles where winning the fight is the sole objective. In some genres, such as pulp, this is ok, even good. But for high fantasy, the pure combat scene is a very strong trope.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 6182235, member: 2303"] "Mud Sorcerers Tomb" in the original is much like the Tomb of Horrors - there is combat, but not a lot of it. The basic problem with not having combat siloing has to do with the micro-game aspect of combat in DnD. That is, combat is expected, and when it happens it pushes most other activities to the side. Now, an interesting combat scene has some kind of mcguffin or objective besides "do to them before they do to us". As soon as there is such a side objective, the entire game changes, and suddenly what would ordinarily be non-combat powers are viable. This is nice. Problem is, a completely (or even largely) combat-incompetent character ties the gamemasters and adventure designer's hand - suddenly there can be no battles where winning the fight is the sole objective. In some genres, such as pulp, this is ok, even good. But for high fantasy, the pure combat scene is a very strong trope. [/QUOTE]

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