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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 4038232" data-attributes="member: 545">The mixed signals are with respect to how you design adventures.If your world has primarily &quot;status quo&quot; encounters, then they are what they are because that is the logic of the world.&nbsp; Some days the Wizard (or Rogue or Fighter) will be useless because the world is just uncaring that way.&nbsp; But then the PCs should logically flee when faced with your 19th level BBEG because there is no sane reason to believe survival would be possible.If your world has mostly &quot;tailored&quot; encounters, then facing the 19th level BBEG makes perfect sense -- there is bound to be some way for (most of) the party to survive because the DM is going to wave his magic wand behind the screen to make that true.&nbsp; If that were the case, then your ancient crypt was presumably designed to torture the Wizard on purpose.&nbsp; (It is simply not true that the only challenges that could have inhabited that crypt were impossibly high SR creatures.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 4038232, member: 545"] The mixed signals are with respect to how you design adventures. If your world has primarily "status quo" encounters, then they are what they are because that is the logic of the world. Some days the Wizard (or Rogue or Fighter) will be useless because the world is just uncaring that way. But then the PCs should logically flee when faced with your 19th level BBEG because there is no sane reason to believe survival would be possible. If your world has mostly "tailored" encounters, then facing the 19th level BBEG makes perfect sense -- there is bound to be some way for (most of) the party to survive because the DM is going to wave his magic wand behind the screen to make that true. If that were the case, then your ancient crypt was presumably designed to torture the Wizard on purpose. (It is simply not true that the [i]only[/i] challenges that could have inhabited that crypt were impossibly high SR creatures.) [/QUOTE]

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