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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9265979" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Like so many of the rules and guidelines of 1e AD&D many tables just ignored the comments on pages 84-85, but my point is that 1e AD&D was actually assuming that PC's would mostly face level appropriate encounters and that if they sought out encounters that weren't level appropriate, they should get a lesser award. For example, there are also comments to the effect that if you do face goblins at higher level, that the numbers should be increased to make the challenge more appropriate. And yeah, goblins are even without adjusting the XP no way to level up at higher levels either in terms of the XP they offer or the treasure they could be expected to have, given that XP requirements in early editions of D&D increased exponentially. </p><p></p><p>But the idea of encounter level and challenge rating we see show up in 3e are just codifications and clarifications of ideas that were already present in prior editions. Which is one of the many reasons for me, 3e just felt like a continuation of the game I was already playing just with modernized and cleaned up rules, and my house rules initially largely consisted of translating parts of my 1e game that weren't translated into 3e by the design team. Granted, if you came into 3e without 1e experience, you ended up playing a very different game than what I ended up playing, especially after the abomination that was 3.5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9265979, member: 4937"] Like so many of the rules and guidelines of 1e AD&D many tables just ignored the comments on pages 84-85, but my point is that 1e AD&D was actually assuming that PC's would mostly face level appropriate encounters and that if they sought out encounters that weren't level appropriate, they should get a lesser award. For example, there are also comments to the effect that if you do face goblins at higher level, that the numbers should be increased to make the challenge more appropriate. And yeah, goblins are even without adjusting the XP no way to level up at higher levels either in terms of the XP they offer or the treasure they could be expected to have, given that XP requirements in early editions of D&D increased exponentially. But the idea of encounter level and challenge rating we see show up in 3e are just codifications and clarifications of ideas that were already present in prior editions. Which is one of the many reasons for me, 3e just felt like a continuation of the game I was already playing just with modernized and cleaned up rules, and my house rules initially largely consisted of translating parts of my 1e game that weren't translated into 3e by the design team. Granted, if you came into 3e without 1e experience, you ended up playing a very different game than what I ended up playing, especially after the abomination that was 3.5e. [/QUOTE]
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