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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7452199" data-attributes="member: 996">So an adventure with a long 'hunt' - litteral to corner a monster, or figurative to uncover the perpetrator in some mystery scenario - culminating in a climactic battle with the quary?  Sounds like it'd be really problematic in most editions of D&D.  Mysteries get trivialized by a little divination, litteral 'hunts' with the addition of some travel/stealth magic on top of that - if the party is too low level for those resources, then the investgation or hunt is most likely conducted by one or a few of the players with the PCs that have the right skills engaging with the DM for a long while - and then the sole encounter of the day, with a single enemy, gets 'Nova'd for a lovely one-round anti-climax.  You could easily have half your players all but sit out such a scenario.    4e makes that kind of scenario easy.  The skill challenge structure gives you a framework to gauge the difficulty of the 'hunt' and step through it while keeping everyone involved, Solos make a meaningful combat challenge for a whole party at the final confrontation, and single-encounter-days only modestly decreases the difficulty of the encounter without exacerbating any class-balance issues.  But, substitute in a Standard and it'll be nothing, make the KotSf mistake and sub an overleveled elite and it'll be a PitA for all involved.  But follow the encounter guidelines for a really tough Solo fight (single-encounter day) and it should be awesome.</blockquote>

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