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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3639987" data-attributes="member: 29746">What's even more fun is that, if you don't end up doing this very often because the PCs almost never actually travel somewhere (for instance), when they finally do- and you hit them with a random encounter- they'll likely treat it very, very cautiously since they're expecting you to throw appropriately-CR'ed monsters at them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Case in point: the PCs in my original Epic game are traveling through the Negative Energy Plane ATM, for personal reasons, and on the way to their hoped-for destination (the former domain of a now-dead Overgod) they met a creature. Well, I as the DM knew that this poor little sacrificial lamb was only CR 10 vs. the group of 32nd-level PCs, but they didn't! The party members who went first in initiative order actually waited until the first spellcaster went who then Greater Teleported the party 50 miles forward and thus out of combat.I was chuckling up a storm, believe me. And since we ended the session on another random encounter (I didn't want to start a combat and not finish it at the very end), I may get 'em again this weekend. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 3639987, member: 29746"] What's even more fun is that, if you don't end up doing this very often because the PCs almost never actually [b]travel[/b] somewhere (for instance), when they finally do- and you hit them with a random encounter- they'll likely treat it very, very cautiously since they're expecting you to throw appropriately-CR'ed monsters at them. :) Case in point: the PCs in my original Epic game are traveling through the Negative Energy Plane ATM, for personal reasons, and on the way to their hoped-for destination (the former domain of a now-dead Overgod) they met a creature. Well, I as the DM knew that this poor little sacrificial lamb was only CR 10 vs. the group of 32nd-level PCs, but they didn't! The party members who went first in initiative order actually [i]waited until the first spellcaster went[/i] who then [i]Greater Teleported[/i] the party 50 miles forward and thus out of combat. I was chuckling up a storm, believe me. And since we ended the session on another random encounter (I didn't want to start a combat and not finish it at the very end), I may get 'em again this weekend. :D [/QUOTE]

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