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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Ghost" data-source="post: 4702677" data-attributes="member: 60281">Partly true. While they can, and, often times do, produce similar outcomes, they will often produce dissimilar outcomes as well. My feeling is, I would rather have the PCs make that determination.To start, I do not plan out adventures, I just create opportunities for my players to find adventures. The world is what it is and it rewards the PCs based on the level of risk they wish to pursue. Not the level of risk I choose to give them. Part of the fun is in overcoming situations that should be well beyond our capabilities. We prefer playing knowing that the next encounter could be a cakewalk or a TPK. We don't know. We can guess. We can figure probabilities, strategies, and tactics. After that, it is just left to the roll of the dice, but we made that choice as players. We took the risk and that was the result. As a player, I cannot find joy in success unless I can also fail. In fact, I love when my character fails, it motivates me as a player. My friends play the same way. I'll paraphrase ABC's Wide World of Sports - It's about the thrill of victory AND the agony of defeat. I give my players the opportunity to take a chance and experience both, if that's what they choose and that's the way the dice fall.As to level appropriate, well, what is level appropriate? That is on the players to determine. They know better than me what powers, spells, items, skills, abilities, strategies, tactics, etc. they have. Regardless of edition, with all the information that is available to players, they can better determine what an appropriate level challenge is to them than I can. I just give them the opportunities and react to their decisions.I do agree with you that there is merits to both sides of this argument. I am just trying to explain why I do what I do. And we all should do what is best for our individual groups. This just happens to be how my players and I enjoy the game. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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