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WotC: Get Rid of the Tactical Encounter Format
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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 3944991" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>Most of the time there isn't enough room for the stat blocks of all the enemies, a description of everything in the room, all the treasure, a map, and a tactical assessment of the area that can fit into 1 or 2 pages. Often some of the information pushes it to 3. As soon as it is 3 pages, you have to flip during an encounter.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Until you are running the adventure in week 12 and you've forgotten what difficult terrain is and need to look it up. Then you need to search the book to find the page it describes it on.</p><p></p><p>Plus, the map might show what looks like rocks but you aren't sure how big they are. Do they count as difficult terrain or are they so big that they require a climb check? How difficult are they to climb?</p><p></p><p>No, I think I really like having all the information collected in the same spot to AVOID flipping pages rather than cause it. I'm really not sure why everyone says this caused flipping. It made running Eye of the Lich Queen very easy for me. My friend ran Red Hand of Doom and he said that it was really difficult to get used to using the new encounter format at first and he was about to throw the mod out it was driving him so insane but he forced himself to keep going and after about 1/4 of the way through he found that it was actually much easier to run that adventures he had run in the past and really liked it.,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 3944991, member: 5143"] Most of the time there isn't enough room for the stat blocks of all the enemies, a description of everything in the room, all the treasure, a map, and a tactical assessment of the area that can fit into 1 or 2 pages. Often some of the information pushes it to 3. As soon as it is 3 pages, you have to flip during an encounter. Until you are running the adventure in week 12 and you've forgotten what difficult terrain is and need to look it up. Then you need to search the book to find the page it describes it on. Plus, the map might show what looks like rocks but you aren't sure how big they are. Do they count as difficult terrain or are they so big that they require a climb check? How difficult are they to climb? No, I think I really like having all the information collected in the same spot to AVOID flipping pages rather than cause it. I'm really not sure why everyone says this caused flipping. It made running Eye of the Lich Queen very easy for me. My friend ran Red Hand of Doom and he said that it was really difficult to get used to using the new encounter format at first and he was about to throw the mod out it was driving him so insane but he forced himself to keep going and after about 1/4 of the way through he found that it was actually much easier to run that adventures he had run in the past and really liked it., [/QUOTE]
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