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I'm reading through all the threads here about the difficulty of later chapter encounters...Just starting to play this AP with 5 characters: paladin, fighter, rogue, cleric, and wizard. We are an experienced bunch but our style does not necessarily focus on optimization. I'm wondering though, should I scale back the mythic tiers available to characters? Has anyone taken this approach? Perhaps 5 spaced incrementally instead of 10?

Myrnn wrote:

Calculus is extremely important to a number of different fields. The problem with it in an academic setting is it's not presented in any kind of context. The integral or "area under the curve" has no meaning. I despised it in college. But, as a research ecologist, I need it.

What do you use it for, and could an excel program spit out the same answer?

For ecology, it can be used to predict population dynamics. When ecologists want to predict population changes, it may start with a differential equation dp/dt = ... That is, the change in a population over time equals the interaction of the factors that follow. Fundamentally, it provides a framework to develop ideas and hypotheses.

It also has a lot of application for ecological sampling, data analyses, and modeling. Excel can spit out an answer, but first you need to develop the model or equation.