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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8137268" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!A decent enough approach I guess. The issue I have is that it still pits the players thinking &quot;Ok, is this a 'we can win this' encounter, or is this one that Helldritch has built so we can't beat it and we need to avoid it?&quot;. The problem comes if they guess wrong; then they die. It is entirely your fault at that point because you specifically &quot;built the encounter&quot; that way. They were used to 'challenges', and now, because they guessed wrong, they all die.But if a DM doesn't &quot;build encounters for the PC's&quot;, then this entire thing is avoided (re: the 'keep them on their toes'). The Players and their PC's will always be 'on their toes', because they know the DM isn't going to do anything for or against them; he's just running the world. If the PC's don't take precautions and just decide &quot;Yeah, whatever. Enchanters are always exaggerating. It's just a bunny. Go on Boris, cut it's head off...&quot;, well, maybe next time listen to what the NPC is telling you is a deadly, horrible beast. Or at least look into it and do some verification, research or info gathering... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8137268, member: 45197"] Hiya! A decent enough approach I guess. The issue I have is that it still pits the players thinking "Ok, is this a 'we can win this' encounter, or is this one that Helldritch has built so we can't beat it and we need to avoid it?". The problem comes if they guess wrong; then they die. It is entirely your fault at that point because you [I]specifically [/I]"built the encounter" that way. They were used to 'challenges', and now, because they guessed wrong, they all die. But if a DM doesn't "build encounters for the PC's", then this entire thing is avoided (re: the 'keep them on their toes'). The Players and their PC's will [I]always [/I]be 'on their toes', because they know the DM isn't going to do anything for or against them; he's just running the world. If the PC's don't take precautions and just decide "Yeah, whatever. Enchanters are always exaggerating. It's just a bunny. Go on Boris, cut it's head off...", well, maybe next time listen to what the NPC is telling you is a deadly, horrible beast. Or at least look into it and do some verification, research or info gathering... ;) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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