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With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base
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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5984354" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>I've seen this one repeatedly stated and all I can say is that no one I ever played with played this way. Avoid encounters? Why? You were just giving away free xp. Those monsters have equipment that can be sold. They're carrying cash (those 2d6 gp's start adding up after a while). They've got weapons and armor, all of which are worth xp and gold.</p><p></p><p>Besides that, if you avoided an encounter, it would most often turn around and bite you on the ass because that encounter you avoided would just become reinforcements for the next encounter that you didn't avoid. Gank every encounter and you reduce wandering monsters as well - making it that much easier to further explore the dungeon.</p><p></p><p>Why on earth would anyone avoid encounters?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Um, I'm going to guess that you are going by PHB 1 only here. Because, once you get away from the first PHB, there's all sorts of nifty items. Heck, I just managed to complete a major character quest and landed myself this little goody:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/intheworks_201109_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>Now, how is that trash and not worth having? Thing doesn't really have any pluses, but, it's something I've been working towards for the better part of a year of real time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5984354, member: 22779"] I've seen this one repeatedly stated and all I can say is that no one I ever played with played this way. Avoid encounters? Why? You were just giving away free xp. Those monsters have equipment that can be sold. They're carrying cash (those 2d6 gp's start adding up after a while). They've got weapons and armor, all of which are worth xp and gold. Besides that, if you avoided an encounter, it would most often turn around and bite you on the ass because that encounter you avoided would just become reinforcements for the next encounter that you didn't avoid. Gank every encounter and you reduce wandering monsters as well - making it that much easier to further explore the dungeon. Why on earth would anyone avoid encounters? Um, I'm going to guess that you are going by PHB 1 only here. Because, once you get away from the first PHB, there's all sorts of nifty items. Heck, I just managed to complete a major character quest and landed myself this little goody: [img]http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/intheworks_201109_1.jpg[/img] Now, how is that trash and not worth having? Thing doesn't really have any pluses, but, it's something I've been working towards for the better part of a year of real time. [/QUOTE]
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