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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2156553" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>I dunno - at first I was about to say it was, like you presumed, "pseudo-cheater's remorse", but after re-reading it the first fight played well, and the second one, while feeling a little out-of-sorts, still had a logical conclusion.</p><p></p><p>In the first fight, after the Kuo-toa Fighter/Monk shook off the domination, he realized he was surrounded by THREE-TO-ONE odds. Ignore that you were in single digits - you were still standing, a little haggard, but for all he knew you still had spells and power left, and ready for business, and each of you were a match for him by your selves. It's logical for him to try to use such strong opponents to his advantage. </p><p></p><p>The second fight had two glaring problems:First, was the prince by himself a match for the two remaining creatures? If he was, and he was healthy while the two opponents were not, then he could well have won, speaking of averages. The guard could have plausibly turned on the Priest King when it was just him and the Prince. </p><p></p><p>Second, Evil creatures often do not save other creatures who are down and out. However, if the Prince was Lawful, then he may have felt obligated to do so. Taking a metagame viewpoint, the DM may have wanted to reward your group for the sacrifice that they undertook for a bunch of creatures you had no obligation to, to fight to the bitter end for a cause you technically didn't even believe in, to free a group of sentients. From that standpoint, a Lawful prince could have felt obligated to save you all, since you risked so much for the Kuo-toa people.</p><p></p><p>It's not impossible, even if the last fight may have stretched it a bit, But I'd say the whole encounter sounded pretty neat, and would have made for some good reading. <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 2156553, member: 158"] I dunno - at first I was about to say it was, like you presumed, "pseudo-cheater's remorse", but after re-reading it the first fight played well, and the second one, while feeling a little out-of-sorts, still had a logical conclusion. In the first fight, after the Kuo-toa Fighter/Monk shook off the domination, he realized he was surrounded by THREE-TO-ONE odds. Ignore that you were in single digits - you were still standing, a little haggard, but for all he knew you still had spells and power left, and ready for business, and each of you were a match for him by your selves. It's logical for him to try to use such strong opponents to his advantage. The second fight had two glaring problems:First, was the prince by himself a match for the two remaining creatures? If he was, and he was healthy while the two opponents were not, then he could well have won, speaking of averages. The guard could have plausibly turned on the Priest King when it was just him and the Prince. Second, Evil creatures often do not save other creatures who are down and out. However, if the Prince was Lawful, then he may have felt obligated to do so. Taking a metagame viewpoint, the DM may have wanted to reward your group for the sacrifice that they undertook for a bunch of creatures you had no obligation to, to fight to the bitter end for a cause you technically didn't even believe in, to free a group of sentients. From that standpoint, a Lawful prince could have felt obligated to save you all, since you risked so much for the Kuo-toa people. It's not impossible, even if the last fight may have stretched it a bit, But I'd say the whole encounter sounded pretty neat, and would have made for some good reading. :) [/QUOTE]
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