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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Strack" data-source="post: 4722939" data-attributes="member: 71340">Right now every encounter I run is the the "hard" range according to the DMG (N+2 to N+3). I am uncomfortably stepping it up any further. I don't want every encounter the PCs face to be at the highest level of difficulty suggested in the rules. I am worried I will cross some mathematical tipping point and spill over into a TPK.Also, ramping up the overall combat difficulty doesn't fix the problem my group is having. They aren't bored for the entire fight. They generally enjoy the beginning and middle of the combats (3-5 rounds, 30-40 minutes), and usually can't tell whether they will win or not. It's the last 2-3 rounds (15-20 minutes) that are a slog, because by then it is clear they are going to win, but it still takes a while to kill the monster's off.It's sort of like the problem with the game Risk, where the first 2 hours of play are interesting, but the last hour is boring, because by then it is clear who is going to win, but it still takes a long time to to play out.Maybe the problem is just too situational to my group to generalize the rules. The games I run are not typical dungeon crawls. Mostly they are story-oriented and event-driven, with about 2 to 3 fights total in an entire adventure.I've gotten some tentative feedback from my players now on the Sudden Death rules. They have concerns but are willing to give them a try. I will give Sudden Death a shot in my next game (2 weeks from now) and see how they go.</blockquote>

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