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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6516757" data-attributes="member: 6787650">This, the bolded part. I don't like campaigns that are all about professional &quot;adventurers&quot; casually delving dungeons for fun and profit. Such settings bore me. I like campaigns that start off with a gigantic, snowballing disaster, like a John Ringo novel, and the PCs are the ones trying to hold things together in the absence of someone who is really qualified for the job.Dynamic settings, not steady-state.I agree! This is why I've given my players a whole month of dungeon delving and fighting relatively simple threats, which they handled easily. (It was only two days of game time.) Meanwhile, the crises are boiling elsewhere.And this is why I would only make it an option to skip fights. I don't know if they'd take it, because I don't know whether it's fun to narrate taking away the enemy hobgoblin sergeants' spear and gutting him with it, backwards, while taking only a small scratch from a lucky hit by a trooper--or to roll it out using dice. I honestly don't know.To each his own. As a player, I like hard fights, and I don't mind dying. As a DM, I leave it mostly up to my players which part of the sandbox they play in, and I try to telegraph difficulty so they can cut and run if desired. I'm still a pretty new DM, and I have yet to actually challenge my group with the kind of opposition I would want to face, myself. (Well, I have, but so far they've walked away each time without engaging, which is probably some kind of signal. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Maybe if I use bigger monsters with a higher XP award...?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6516757, member: 6787650"] This, the bolded part. I don't like campaigns that are all about professional "adventurers" casually delving dungeons for fun and profit. Such settings bore me. I like campaigns that start off with a gigantic, snowballing disaster, like a John Ringo novel, and the PCs are the ones trying to hold things together in the absence of someone who is [I]really[/I] qualified for the job. Dynamic settings, not steady-state. I agree! This is why I've given my players a whole month of dungeon delving and fighting relatively simple threats, which they handled easily. (It was only two days of game time.) Meanwhile, the crises are boiling elsewhere. And this is why I would only make it an [I]option[/I] to skip fights. I don't know if they'd take it, because I don't know whether it's fun to [I]narrate[/I] taking away the enemy hobgoblin sergeants' spear and gutting him with it, backwards, while taking only a small scratch from a lucky hit by a trooper--or to roll it out using dice. I honestly don't know. To each his own. As a player, I like hard fights, and I don't mind dying. As a DM, I leave it mostly up to my players which part of the sandbox they play in, and I try to telegraph difficulty so they can cut and run if desired. I'm still a pretty new DM, and I have yet to actually challenge my group with the kind of opposition I would want to face, myself. (Well, I have, but so far they've walked away each time without engaging, which is probably some kind of signal. :) Maybe if I use bigger monsters with a higher XP award...?) [/QUOTE]

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