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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5906145" data-attributes="member: 64209">For my group, it's usually environmental cues.&nbsp;&nbsp;E.G. for a Dragon...there are claw marks in stone and metal veins as if they were butter. (The important part)...even with your (+3, keen) magic longsword, it'd take you days or weeks to make even a single mark like that.&nbsp;&nbsp;or....&nbsp;&nbsp;For NPCs (who are trickier than monsters, IMO) I use rep.&nbsp;Fhaaalingarrdeznan the terrible, destroyer of worlds is the master of Jobu the pitiful... Remember how you almost had a TPK from Jobu the pitiful? Are you SURE you're ready to attack the master?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;EDIT. Those first two are &quot;on the fly&quot;. If I have built it into the story there is always the &quot;competent henchman(men)&quot; who kills a fairly powerful monster (e.g. ogre) and then goes to fight the next thing only to be mercillessly wasted (perhaps even as a group of identical competent henchmen).&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;We just saw one of you waste an ogre; a challenging ogre for us....then we see seven of you go into a cave, with only blood and gore spewing out from the cave.&quot; If they don't get that &quot;subtle&quot; message...I don't think they'll get any message.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 5906145, member: 64209"] For my group, it's usually environmental cues. E.G. for a Dragon...there are claw marks in stone and metal veins as if they were butter. (The important part)...even with your (+3, keen) magic longsword, it'd take you days or weeks to make even a single mark like that. or.... For NPCs (who are trickier than monsters, IMO) I use rep. Fhaaalingarrdeznan the terrible, destroyer of worlds is the master of Jobu the pitiful... Remember how you almost had a TPK from Jobu the pitiful? Are you SURE you're ready to attack the master? EDIT. Those first two are "on the fly". If I have built it into the story there is always the "competent henchman(men)" who kills a fairly powerful monster (e.g. ogre) and then goes to fight the next thing only to be mercillessly wasted (perhaps even as a group of identical competent henchmen). "We just saw one of you waste an ogre; a challenging ogre for us....then we see seven of you go into a cave, with only blood and gore spewing out from the cave." If they don't get that "subtle" message...I don't think they'll get [I][U]any[/U][/I] message. [/QUOTE]

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