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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 5188612" data-attributes="member: 55271">I would say two things:(1) On a strategic level, the problems with fly disappear if you stop designing your adventures in a reactive, linear fashion. If there's an encounter that "needs" to happen, design the adventure so that the PCs will seek out that encounter in a proactive fashion.If you design encounters that "need" to happen by placing them in a dungeon room or along a road that the PCs will be forced to pass thru to get to their actual goal, then teleportation, flying, pass through stone, and abilities like them will all pose problems. Re-analyze whether such an encounter is really necessary in the first place. (If it's just a trap or a combat encounter designed to grind away their resources you can probably start by making it more interesting in the first place.) Then look at how you can make the encounter more flexible. For example, let's say that you want the PCs to see evidence of the tyrant's cruel reign by seeing some of his soldiers roughing up a young lady. Rather than locking that encounter into "this will happen as they walk down the road", make it a flexible module that you can plunk down at any dramatically appropriate time: They teleport into Nulb and find the young lady being harassed; or hear her cries as they're flying over; etc.And I'll admit that this isn't easy: Part of the appeal of the dungeon crawl adventure structure is that you don't have to think too hard about how to get the players into Room 15. You can just force them to follow the hallways and -- bam! -- there's Room 15. But I think you'll find your adventures becoming more interesting in general if you don't rely on railroading or define every railroad-avoidance technique in the game as a "problem".(2) On a tactical level, if the PCs ever figure out a combat tactic that you can't figure out how to counter, there's always a simple solution: Have NPCs use the same tactics on them. Either the players will show you exactly how to counter it, or they'll realize it's not particularly fun for any of you and agree that it should be removed.</blockquote>

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