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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 8707649" data-attributes="member: 3424">I no longer have the time to do enough preparation to create a scenario that is extensive enough to meet some peoples' apparent Platonic ideal of a &quot;neutral GM&quot;. I can just about read through a premade adventure and keep the key elements of it in mind when I run it. If I actually had to write one from scratch that isn't just a sequence of random encounters, well, we'd be playing about twice a year. And if your definition of a &quot;fair&quot; encounter is that the PCs have exactly a 50% chance of success, you don't need to play a complex game like D&amp;D. Just flip a coin. Heads, the PCs gain a level. Tails, the PCs die. What could be more fair? Or if you insist on using the D&amp;D rules, just increase the encounter difficulty until you get the desired 50% chance of success. Put the PCs in a town attacked by ogres instead of giving them a cave network occupied by kobolds to explore. Nobody is making you stick with what the DMG calls Medium encounters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 8707649, member: 3424"] I no longer have the time to do enough preparation to create a scenario that is extensive enough to meet some peoples' apparent Platonic ideal of a "neutral GM". I can just about read through a premade adventure and keep the key elements of it in mind when I run it. If I actually had to write one from scratch that isn't just a sequence of random encounters, well, we'd be playing about twice a year. And if your definition of a "fair" encounter is that the PCs have exactly a 50% chance of success, you don't need to play a complex game like D&D. Just flip a coin. Heads, the PCs gain a level. Tails, the PCs die. What could be more fair? Or if you insist on using the D&D rules, just increase the encounter difficulty until you get the desired 50% chance of success. Put the PCs in a town attacked by ogres instead of giving them a cave network occupied by kobolds to explore. Nobody is making you stick with what the DMG calls Medium encounters. [/QUOTE]

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