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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6685927" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>Interesting. Using your terminology, I probably have something like 1/3 to 1/2 "cake walks" (e.g. lone roper in a cave, mostly an "exploration" scenario with combat only as flavor), a few "grinds" and maybe 1/6 to 1/3 tough fights (quadruple Deadly or higher) which may or may not be grinds by your terminology.</p><p> </p><p>The other 1/3 is is what I guess I could call "splats". The party as a whole isn't necessarily in danger of TPK, but individual characters could definitely die if they do the wrong thing. (Especially because my group loves to split the party.) A recent example: players #1 and #2 had started exploring this big pyramid dungeon in space last session. Player #3 missed that session, so the session started out with him exiting the ship/entering the pyramid to catch up with the other guys who are a few hundred feet up ahead. Right where the corridor bends, he sees a pit (I describe an otyugh sewage pit) and instead of opting to carefully step around it like everyone else had (success on a DC 3 Dex check required) he decides he'd rather make the DC 5 Athletics check to jump over it. I shrug ("your funeral") and adjudicate it, and he totally biffs it and falls... into the otyugh's pool. Long story short, the otyugh drowned him to death by repeated slams, but another PC heard the splashing in time to kill the otyugh, grab the half-eaten corpse, and just barely Revivify him before the time ran out. There were a number of potential outcomes:</p><p></p><p>1.) PCs hop the pit and never even know the otyugh is there.</p><p>2.) PCs discover the otyugh and kill it to death with ease from range (cake-walk).</p><p>3.) They try to kill it but Otyugh escapes underwater into the sewage mains.</p><p>4a.) Otyugh kills a PC but not permanently. PC is fine.</p><p>4b.) Otyugh kills a PC but not permanently. PC is permanently maimed by missing body parts. (I had the player roll a d20 and any result divisible by 5 would mean a lost limb.)</p><p>5.) Otyugh kills a PC and eats it all. No more PC.</p><p></p><p>That's not a cake walk, nor a grind, so I guess it's a "splat." I like splats and try to use them a lot. Gargoyles pushing you off a cliff is also a splat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6685927, member: 6787650"] Interesting. Using your terminology, I probably have something like 1/3 to 1/2 "cake walks" (e.g. lone roper in a cave, mostly an "exploration" scenario with combat only as flavor), a few "grinds" and maybe 1/6 to 1/3 tough fights (quadruple Deadly or higher) which may or may not be grinds by your terminology. The other 1/3 is is what I guess I could call "splats". The party as a whole isn't necessarily in danger of TPK, but individual characters could definitely die if they do the wrong thing. (Especially because my group loves to split the party.) A recent example: players #1 and #2 had started exploring this big pyramid dungeon in space last session. Player #3 missed that session, so the session started out with him exiting the ship/entering the pyramid to catch up with the other guys who are a few hundred feet up ahead. Right where the corridor bends, he sees a pit (I describe an otyugh sewage pit) and instead of opting to carefully step around it like everyone else had (success on a DC 3 Dex check required) he decides he'd rather make the DC 5 Athletics check to jump over it. I shrug ("your funeral") and adjudicate it, and he totally biffs it and falls... into the otyugh's pool. Long story short, the otyugh drowned him to death by repeated slams, but another PC heard the splashing in time to kill the otyugh, grab the half-eaten corpse, and just barely Revivify him before the time ran out. There were a number of potential outcomes: 1.) PCs hop the pit and never even know the otyugh is there. 2.) PCs discover the otyugh and kill it to death with ease from range (cake-walk). 3.) They try to kill it but Otyugh escapes underwater into the sewage mains. 4a.) Otyugh kills a PC but not permanently. PC is fine. 4b.) Otyugh kills a PC but not permanently. PC is permanently maimed by missing body parts. (I had the player roll a d20 and any result divisible by 5 would mean a lost limb.) 5.) Otyugh kills a PC and eats it all. No more PC. That's not a cake walk, nor a grind, so I guess it's a "splat." I like splats and try to use them a lot. Gargoyles pushing you off a cliff is also a splat. [/QUOTE]
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