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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4036766" data-attributes="member: 22779">The flip side to this is, if you are the DM, why are you wasting the table's time with unimportant throwaway encounters?  If the encounter is meaningless, why have it in the game in the first place.This appears to be something that they want to address really.  Way back the dev's were talking about the idea of 3 easy fights and 1 hard fight being the standard in the 3e model.  I think the DMing advice is going to look a lot more like, "Make every fight count"  And I think that's a good thing.  Really, why ponce around with meaningless encounters.  If the players look back at the last session and nothing leaps out as a gripping encounter, that's a failure by the DM.  A completely forgettable encounter probably shouldn't have been there in the first place.So, now you have the idea that "encounter" is a much more fluid concept.  An encounter might be a series of chambers, each one with combatants, all of which are involved in the same fight.  They might not be in the same room at the same time, but, it might just be all one encounter.  Kind of like the old Bruce Lee movies where he moves through the building, kicking everyone's ass to get to the bad guy.  Instead of that being a series of distinct encounters, that will all be a single encounter.Which is where the idea of /encounter mechanics will become REALLY important.  In 3e /encounter means you can use it pretty much every time you face a new opponent.  In 4e, I think encounter will be a far more fluid concept, meaning that you may just not have your /encounter resources back as fast as you might like.</blockquote>

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