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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6548001" data-attributes="member: 3586">Oh, I love "Run Away!" play... really, really love it. I've fond memories of an owlbear chasing characters through corridors a couple of years ago in my AD&D campaign. Then there was that tyrannosaurus on the Isle of Dread... <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My chief objection to the powering-up of giants is that I prefer giants to not be so tough - I like PCs cleaving through them! (Dragons, OTOH, I think deserved the redesign). And it's not like G1-3 was a cakewalk before the giants got more powerful!Another aspect of all of this is the style of adventure. With more sand-boxy encounters, the "Run Away!" tactic is far more effective. When you write adventures as "You must defeat X now to continue", then the relative balance matters (and, of course, causes all sorts of problems). Cheers!</blockquote>