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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2363826" data-attributes="member: 22622">But that's the thing, the pc doesn't have to be there.&nbsp; Unless the PC is the mystical child of light and your campaign is centered around that player (no no).&nbsp; Door's can be bashed instead of picked, wounds can be healed with potions instead of divine magic, and a well laid strategy with mages can be just as effective as a big brute.&nbsp; I don't really think it takes much effort to reduce an encounter a cl or too.&nbsp; You take some hd away, reduce damage reduction, change an axe here to a sword there, limit the spell reduction, play the monsters a bit looser. There are ways to change up the encounter so that it is still challgening to the current players.&nbsp; &nbsp; Forgive me, but I think you just don't want to spend the extra 10 to 20 minutes it would take to do so.&nbsp; So it becomes much easier to tell a pc &quot;Oh forget it I'll just have someone play your character, I don't want to spend any more time preparing.&nbsp; If he dies he dies&quot;.&nbsp; I think if you tell the player the truth, that you could have scaled the encounter to fit the current makeup of the party and you didn't want to waist the time, he'd probably be a bit more irate.&nbsp; As experienced players and dms, i think most of us know that that is an available option and thus we are a bit angrier than your player who probably doesnt even know that's an option. I have to agree with arandom that this seems to be a difference between younger players with no families&nbsp; and older players.&nbsp; Dming for a younger crowd and older crowd is too different things at time.&nbsp; I do spend a bit more time preparing because not everyone can be there every week so I find myself mid week tweaking things, which I like to think is my responsiblity as a DM to make the game as fun for all players there or not.&nbsp; I also spend time engaging the player whom will not be there outside of game so that he feels apart of the game when he's not there.&nbsp; &nbsp;I feel so old.&nbsp; I want to say like some grandfather &quot;you'll understand when you get a wife, child and fulltime job. :&nbsp; No disrespect intended but this feels like an age gap issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 2363826, member: 22622"] But that's the thing, the pc doesn't have to be there. Unless the PC is the mystical child of light and your campaign is centered around that player (no no). Door's can be bashed instead of picked, wounds can be healed with potions instead of divine magic, and a well laid strategy with mages can be just as effective as a big brute. I don't really think it takes much effort to reduce an encounter a cl or too. You take some hd away, reduce damage reduction, change an axe here to a sword there, limit the spell reduction, play the monsters a bit looser. There are ways to change up the encounter so that it is still challgening to the current players. Forgive me, but I think you just don't want to spend the extra 10 to 20 minutes it would take to do so. So it becomes much easier to tell a pc "Oh forget it I'll just have someone play your character, I don't want to spend any more time preparing. If he dies he dies". I think if you tell the player the truth, that you could have scaled the encounter to fit the current makeup of the party and you didn't want to waist the time, he'd probably be a bit more irate. As experienced players and dms, i think most of us know that that is an available option and thus we are a bit angrier than your player who probably doesnt even know that's an option. I have to agree with arandom that this seems to be a difference between younger players with no families and older players. Dming for a younger crowd and older crowd is too different things at time. I do spend a bit more time preparing because not everyone can be there every week so I find myself mid week tweaking things, which I like to think is my responsiblity as a DM to make the game as fun for all players there or not. I also spend time engaging the player whom will not be there outside of game so that he feels apart of the game when he's not there. I feel so old. I want to say like some grandfather "you'll understand when you get a wife, child and fulltime job. : No disrespect intended but this feels like an age gap issue. [/QUOTE]

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