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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 3975948" data-attributes="member: 40810">Yes, they made most fun of all. Not at the moment, but just prior (when you where scared whether it would happen or your char would get lucky) and afterwards whenever you remember it.I mean:Demons -> charge, slay take their statsDragons -> charge, slay take their statsGiants -> charge, slay take their stuffnon-draining undead -> charge, slay take their stuffReally, not scary at alldraining undead and poisonous animals-> players wetting their pantsGive me a temple of the evil wargod. Yawn, enter kill anyone and take their stuffs.Give me a temple of the evil deathgod. Yawn,  enter kill everyone and take their stuff.BUT give me the temple of the evil plage god and it suddenly all becomes a "You first! Me? NOOO! YOU first! Forget it"Give me the biggest monster doing insane damage -> charge kill it and take it's stuffGive me a monster that doesn't really threatens death but drains energy/abilities and you scare the <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /> out of me.I soon forgett my insane crit on the BBEG of the campaign but I damn sure remember every time I missed because of too much PA penatly or when my char had to be carried out of the dungeon by his friends because he had too much strength drained to walk on his own.I never had the impression that anyone was scared because his char could be rend in two, being eaten in one piece or crushed to slush. But anyone had an irrational panic about having his char walk out perfectly fine with 100 hp but with a negative level or being infected with a ability score draining disease.Same with missed confirmations roll. Maybe I have a too pesimistic world view, but all my fondest D&D memories are of fricking failures while all our victories are forgotten as soon as they happen. I still grin when remembering our cleric of Kord using his strength domain power  and some other smite to really give it to the BBEG with his greatsword, shouting "FOR KORD" as he throws his dice and rolls a natural 1! No problem, Kord won't allow this *uses luck domain power for reroll* shouting "FOR KORD" as he throws his dice and rolls .....  a second natural 1!Was it fun at this very momemt? Maybe not. Was it in retrospectively one of our greates D&D moments? Sure it was! And the player of the Kord cleric agrees wholehearthly, in fact, this anecdote is the one you will most likely hear if you ask him anything about his old Kord cleric character. And he too would have quite a few victories to brag about, but he always tells this one storyTake out the frustration and you take out the fun! A healthy dose of frustration is the soil from which the greatest fun grows!</blockquote>

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