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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8265492" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>To the last two questions, in order, I'd answer "Yes" and "I don't know". I can only assume you ran the goblins to the best of their abilities and that they were in for the kill, and if so, great!</p><p></p><p>If the goblins really were in for the kill, didn't pull punches, made sure to finish off downed characters, and so forth then you're firmly into CaW territory in my books.</p><p></p><p>But there's another factor to consider, and that's what system you're running. If you're running 5e, for example, which leans fairly hard toward the idea of CaS then you've got work to do in order to make it even feel like CaW, never mind actually become it. <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><p></p><p>Can't speak for the OP but in my case this isn't true. It more relies on the enemies - the intelligent ones, anyway - making themselves stronger and more threatening than they otherwise might be, through good and smart use of tactics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8265492, member: 29398"] To the last two questions, in order, I'd answer "Yes" and "I don't know". I can only assume you ran the goblins to the best of their abilities and that they were in for the kill, and if so, great! If the goblins really were in for the kill, didn't pull punches, made sure to finish off downed characters, and so forth then you're firmly into CaW territory in my books. But there's another factor to consider, and that's what system you're running. If you're running 5e, for example, which leans fairly hard toward the idea of CaS then you've got work to do in order to make it even feel like CaW, never mind actually become it. :) Can't speak for the OP but in my case this isn't true. It more relies on the enemies - the intelligent ones, anyway - making themselves stronger and more threatening than they otherwise might be, through good and smart use of tactics. [/QUOTE]
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