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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 3085206" data-attributes="member: 30610">I've been a bit conflicted over this for a while now, so I'll see what the boards say.  I have something of a no-holds-barred campaign running over on the PbP forums where powergaming is encouraged and the PCs are working to help a fiendish invasion of a prime world.  In the inaugural fight, I threw in a bunch of CR 9 kobold warriors, a kobold sorc, and a kobold Worm that Walks (also a sorc.)  The encounter is more or less at the party's EL (17, and there are 10 14th ECL players), but the Worm that Walks just instakilled someone via engulf (a special attack that does 100 damage on a successful melee touch attack.)  This player had indicated that she wouldn't mind a new character, but I wonder if it was a bit rude of me to just off the character.I'm not concerned that this was unfair in terms of relative power levels, only that it was perhaps too abrupt for the player (I was not able to warn the party without giving away the fundamental twist behind this encounter, though I figured someone might die, so I said nothing beforehand.)Also, in general, is using a template like WtW unfair?  I agree that it would be ridiculous to face a Worm that Walks at 5th level, but is there a rule of thumb that dictates when a template is good for play?  I more or less eyeball these things.  (For those not familiar with 10+ player campaigns, I should explain that having one player death in a fight between two parties of equal EL is pretty tame and by no means a worst case scenario.)</blockquote>

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