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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8545126" data-attributes="member: 93670">&quot;<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544818" target="_blank">a tree</a>&quot;, &quot;<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544646" target="_blank">a stone</a>&quot;, &quot;<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544790" target="_blank">a stone won't cut it</a>&quot; &quot;<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544810" target="_blank">here's why it will</a>&quot;.&nbsp; There was no railroading, warnings were shoved aside with disdain.&nbsp; If you are talking about the mimic&nbsp; example I gave, I'll give the whole context of that because it's important.&nbsp; Players were low level &amp; dealing with a fairly typical evil necromancer doing evil* (stealing bodies from cemetery) that someone is willing to pay to have solved.&nbsp; After confirming that they did not want to waste time doing any scouting or anything the players charge in, spend ten or twenty minutes hacking through the front gate even though two players have a climb or fly speed &amp; could have gone over to watch the undead preparing with some risk.&nbsp; Players fought two encounters on the line between easy &amp; medium before declaring that they were going to barricade themselves in that there building to take a short rest.&nbsp; Despite warnings about it being a bad idea&nbsp; to storm in &amp; do that they decided to do it anyways and some of them wanted to spend the short rest searching for treasure in the storeroom building even after being told that it would take hours &amp; that there was not enough time to do so during a rest while surrounded by undead who were making noises outside.&nbsp; It was not until the noises stopped and they finished their short rest that the players decided to peek outside to find themselves surrounded by pitch soaked firewood with a torch bearing zombie headed their way. After spending an hour in close proximity to said mimic it's reasonable for it to telepathically pickup details like the cleric's god &amp; disguise itself as a lantern that looks holy&nbsp; to gtfo before it too burns up Shedding light as an object that is intended to shed light is reasonably within the mimic's statblock abilities. The whole sequence was an exercise in simply handing out yard after yard of rope until they allowed the bad guy to escape &amp; unwittingly walked away with a new friendmimic.* little e evil &amp; barely that</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8545126, member: 93670"] "[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544818']a tree[/URL]", "[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544646']a stone[/URL]", "[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544790']a stone won't cut it[/URL]" "[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-just-said-why-i-hate-wizard-fighter-dynamic.685777/post-8544810']here's why it will[/URL]". There was no railroading, warnings were shoved aside with disdain. If you are talking about the mimic example I gave, I'll give the whole context of that because it's important. Players were low level & dealing with a fairly typical evil necromancer doing evil* (stealing bodies from cemetery) that someone is willing to pay to have solved. After confirming that they did not want to waste time doing any scouting or anything the players charge in, spend ten or twenty minutes hacking through the front gate even though two players have a climb or fly speed & could have gone over to watch the undead preparing with some risk. Players fought two encounters on the line between easy & medium before declaring that they were going to barricade themselves in that there building to take a short rest. Despite warnings about it being a bad idea to storm in & do that they decided to do it anyways [I]and[/I] some of them wanted to spend the short rest searching for treasure in the storeroom building even after being told that it would take hours & that there was not enough time to do so during a rest while surrounded by undead who were making noises outside. It was not until the noises stopped [I]and[/I] they finished their short rest that the players decided to peek outside to find themselves surrounded by pitch soaked firewood with a torch bearing zombie headed their way. After spending an hour in close proximity to said mimic it's reasonable for it to telepathically pickup details like the cleric's god & disguise itself as a lantern that looks holy to gtfo before it too burns up Shedding light as an object that is intended to shed light is reasonably within the mimic's statblock abilities. The whole sequence was an exercise in simply handing out yard after yard of rope until they allowed the bad guy to escape & unwittingly walked away with a new friendmimic. * little [SIZE=2]e[/SIZE] evil & barely that [/QUOTE]

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