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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9263116" data-attributes="member: 11">What would that be based on in-game? An all-powerful being that sets up the encounters? I just don’t get what in the world would tell you that 3 to 4 encounters is all you will ever face no matter where you are or what you are doing.Player A: Hold off on that spell, we’re deep in this dungeon and there could be something tough down here based on the legendsPlayer B: Naw! We’ve already had&nbsp; three encounters before this. I can blow it all.That makes no sense to me. Heck, even if it happened to generally be the case it would annoy the heck out of me as both another player or the DM if that was the basis for an in-game choice.Of course, if that kind of meta-thinking works for your table, knock yourself out.&nbsp; Far be it from me to say all degrees of meta-thinking are verboten, but I definitely have a line there.It is nothing like that. One is a clear in-game reasoning. The other would be based on what is total coincidence from the POV of the PCs (unless they decide this is the gods’ doing or something, I guess).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 9263116, member: 11"] What would that be based on in-game? An all-powerful being that sets up the encounters? I just don’t get what in the world would tell you that 3 to 4 encounters is all you will ever face no matter where you are or what you are doing. Player A: Hold off on that spell, we’re deep in this dungeon and there could be something tough down here based on the legends Player B: Naw! We’ve already had three encounters before this. I can blow it all. That makes no sense to me. Heck, even if it happened to generally be the case it would annoy the heck out of me as both another player or the DM if that was the basis for an in-game choice. Of course, if that kind of meta-thinking works for your table, knock yourself out. Far be it from me to say all degrees of meta-thinking are verboten, but I definitely have a line there. It is nothing like that. One is a clear in-game reasoning. The other would be based on what is total coincidence from the POV of the PCs (unless they decide this is the gods’ doing or something, I guess). [/QUOTE]

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