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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 3945478" data-attributes="member: 5100">As a very experienced DM, I'm going to go with: it helps DMs whose strengths lie outside of tactics.I don't suck -- I'm especially good with skirmish types -- but tactical combat, especially as the math works in 3E just ain't my best.&nbsp; I'm much, much better at the storyline, adding and applying history, and politics.I've found the new layout to be a benefit for my own planning, especially when combined with the encounter templates from Dungeonscape.&nbsp; Both encourage me to do a bit more thought about the combat portion of the encounters before the session, rather than just react to the players' actions.For running a published adventure, though, I'm not sure I'd get much more from the tactical format than a &quot;tactics&quot; blurb.&nbsp; Of course, I've run several encounters from published sources that had tactics that even I could immediately see were only appropriate for drunken morons.&nbsp; There are no silver bullets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 3945478, member: 5100"] As a very experienced DM, I'm going to go with: it helps DMs whose strengths lie outside of tactics. I don't suck -- I'm especially good with skirmish types -- but tactical combat, especially as the math works in 3E just ain't my best. I'm much, much better at the storyline, adding and applying history, and politics. I've found the new layout to be a benefit for my own planning, especially when combined with the encounter templates from Dungeonscape. Both encourage me to do a bit more thought about the combat portion of the encounters before the session, rather than just react to the players' actions. For running a published adventure, though, I'm not sure I'd get much more from the tactical format than a "tactics" blurb. Of course, I've run several encounters from published sources that had tactics that even I could immediately see were only appropriate for drunken morons. There are no silver bullets. [/QUOTE]

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