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Originally Posted by Gnarsh
Balance is important, but it's not just about balancing individual encounters. It's also about making the game world feel like it's a real place, with real consequences and rewards and in which the NPCs at in ways that make sense. So sure, sometimes that means that a horde of baddies are going to descend upon the player character's heads. Other times, that's going to mean that enemies will slink away in the night to plot some other less suicidal method of obtaining their goals...
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Exactly! Running an opposing force just like they're a party of PCs can really wake up the players when they discover some of their favorite tactics can be used against them. Nothing is more sobering than finding out an enemy is being run intelligently with a thought to effective group tactics.