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<blockquote data-quote="Tallifer" data-source="post: 5803946" data-attributes="member: 84661">This essay is very perceptive and even perspicuous. It certainly highlights two common approaches to encounters. However, I think that many players like myself enjoy a bit of both. We like planning and clever tricks to matter, but we also enjoy a well-fought and dramatic combat, using all of our powers and resources.All of the cunning you described with the owlbear and the bees has been present (whether well-done or ill-conceived) in countless sessions of various roleplaying games. However I do feel that the Fourth Edition more consistently offered a gripping and interesting combat on top of the ambushes, treachery and cruel trickery.I do know that there have been players in my groups however who had little time for any sort of planning or discussion. And I have been often guilty of bloodthirstiness or vainglory in the face of overwhelming odds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tallifer, post: 5803946, member: 84661"] This essay is very perceptive and even perspicuous. It certainly highlights two common approaches to encounters. However, I think that many players like myself enjoy a bit of both. We like planning and clever tricks to matter, but we also enjoy a well-fought and dramatic combat, using all of our powers and resources. All of the cunning you described with the owlbear and the bees has been present (whether well-done or ill-conceived) in countless sessions of various roleplaying games. However I do feel that the Fourth Edition more consistently offered a gripping and interesting combat on top of the ambushes, treachery and cruel trickery. I do know that there have been players in my groups however who had little time for any sort of planning or discussion. And I have been often guilty of bloodthirstiness or vainglory in the face of overwhelming odds. [/QUOTE]

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