On The Shoulders Of Dwarves

Full disclosure, I ran [City of Mist](https://www.cityofmist.co/) for her, and now we’re both mice. ### 2:10 Email from Jessica Gao > Dear Dwarves, > As a new GM one of my biggest problems that I am running into is setting difficulty levels for encounters. Very often I make them too easy and the tasks are trivial and boring or I set it too hard and I kill my whole party (=( ultra sad face). I am running into this problem even when running pre-made scenarios as often time the pre-gen NPCs don't have all the stats filled in and I have to make some up. And I do hope to one day write my own adventures (which I am really looking forward to!) but am finding this aspect particularly tricky. > I'm really hoping there is a magical Uri formula...(=) ultra hopeful face) > Your humble pupil, Jessica First of all, don't feel bad. Balancing combat is more of an art than science. However since this is a known issue there are some tools for it. Use the tools provided in the system. Learn from published adventures or premade