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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2893644" data-attributes="member: 31734">If greater numbers is the problem, that the solution should involve it.  There should not be a chicken draw rule to solve some other problem. The NG/NE combat should have been a draw with St. George spending 4 rounds buffing up the elemental (without tremorsense, he would not find the dragon).  It's incredibly stupid for the dragon to stick around and fight, knowing he'll lose.  It's not a question of whether he has an attack that works (and he doesn't), but that by this point, NG combatants are so powerful, it's much better to obtain a draw at every single opportunity. Exactly, because that's a smart tactic.  And yet your opponents in NE are forced into incredible stupid tactics.  You're handed an advantage in the arena rules. Actually, NE will not do that because they can't do that.  If they could, St. George would already be out.  It was the fact of a draw and the idea that we could see what we were facing before entering that made it barely tolerable to fight General Rumble.I didn't see many people, if anyone, stepping in to help with that (except for the lack of books issue).  Maybe it was because I checked more often, but I'm not sure about that. I have no problem with putting up blade barriers or walls of fire.  I have a problem with forcing a combatant to go through them.  I see no reason why someone should be forced to impale himself to enter the arena.  As another example, if you could put up a wall of stone, the opponent could not even enter.  In that case, Gansk ruled that it would be a draw.  Why can't I choose not to enter through the blade barrier and similarly get a draw?</blockquote>

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