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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8064503" data-attributes="member: 21169">Scouting wasn't particularly viable in this game for two reasons:1) Knowledge checks were made against hit dice in 3.5 and our foes, mostly taken from MM3, had loads of them. Frex the MM3 charnel hound, which we encountered at level 7 iirc, has 21 hit dice and so requires a DC 31 Religion check to know one piece of useful information.2) The GM and one of the three players had very little patience for it.I should add that this game was great fun. It was highly challenge oriented. We got ourselves into some horrendous scrapes and usually managed to get out of them with tactics in the moment rather than scouting and planning. Combat was very unforgiving. If you made the wrong choice with your first couple of actions your PC or another party member would be dead. As with all WotC editions of D&D, combat is a valid minigame.</blockquote>