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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7540101" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>Would something that they don't need to kill and can just bypass without worrying about it later really qualify as a "Boss encounter" that turned into a cakewalk in the first place? I mean, if your 7th level party can afford riding horses, they can all outrun a remorhaz without casting a spell. My take on the thread topic is that it's about things that one would expect to be a hard fight that ended up trivialized in an unexpected way; finding a random encounter that you're able to bypass doesn't really seem to qualify. Since I figured the situation was germane to the topic, I thought even though it wasn't an actual 'boss fight' it was still a fight the party would need to actually win to get to their objective that turned into a cakewalk, not a fight that could just be avoided entirely without that avoidance causing any problems later. And since polymorph just delays the problem in that case rather than solve it, I asked for clarification.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hmmm... you know, I'm looking through this thread, and this appears to be the first time 'open tundra' was mentioned, or the fact that the creatures was not in a significant location, and that the PCs could just walk away from it. But I do note that the thread title uses the words 'boss encounter'. Maybe, just maybe, it's not actually unreasonable to assume that a fight in a thread about "Boss encounters" was not a pointless random encounter that could be ignored, but something that, even if not an actual boss, was a creature that was actually in some way involved with whatever the PCs objective is or the location where it is. For the love of Great Gummi, why would <em>they bother to fight it in the first place</em>? How bad are your adventurers at bypassing unneeded encounters that they'd fight a deadly encounter that they are fine with bypassing?</p><p></p><p>It's really douchey to leave out key information about a situation, then get snarky when someone asks questions trying to understand what you posted. And it's really overflowing the canoe of douche to leave off that key information when the situation you posted in a thread that it doesn't come close to fitting the thread topic, and the person asking you questions is clearly trying to make sense of what you posted in light of what the thread is about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7540101, member: 6976536"] Would something that they don't need to kill and can just bypass without worrying about it later really qualify as a "Boss encounter" that turned into a cakewalk in the first place? I mean, if your 7th level party can afford riding horses, they can all outrun a remorhaz without casting a spell. My take on the thread topic is that it's about things that one would expect to be a hard fight that ended up trivialized in an unexpected way; finding a random encounter that you're able to bypass doesn't really seem to qualify. Since I figured the situation was germane to the topic, I thought even though it wasn't an actual 'boss fight' it was still a fight the party would need to actually win to get to their objective that turned into a cakewalk, not a fight that could just be avoided entirely without that avoidance causing any problems later. And since polymorph just delays the problem in that case rather than solve it, I asked for clarification. Hmmm... you know, I'm looking through this thread, and this appears to be the first time 'open tundra' was mentioned, or the fact that the creatures was not in a significant location, and that the PCs could just walk away from it. But I do note that the thread title uses the words 'boss encounter'. Maybe, just maybe, it's not actually unreasonable to assume that a fight in a thread about "Boss encounters" was not a pointless random encounter that could be ignored, but something that, even if not an actual boss, was a creature that was actually in some way involved with whatever the PCs objective is or the location where it is. For the love of Great Gummi, why would [I]they bother to fight it in the first place[/I]? How bad are your adventurers at bypassing unneeded encounters that they'd fight a deadly encounter that they are fine with bypassing? It's really douchey to leave out key information about a situation, then get snarky when someone asks questions trying to understand what you posted. And it's really overflowing the canoe of douche to leave off that key information when the situation you posted in a thread that it doesn't come close to fitting the thread topic, and the person asking you questions is clearly trying to make sense of what you posted in light of what the thread is about. [/QUOTE]
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