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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3855263" data-attributes="member: 22882">I've done this from time to time.In my first Ivalice game, the PCs were about to fight their first (albeit depowered and only partly manifested) lucavi (a powerful Ivalician devil).  Due to the circumstances of the summoning, the first thing the lucavi did was soak a hit from an NPC grand master in one of the local knightly orders - and then turn around and rip him apart.Set the mood nicely.  (I had a backup 'red shirt' NPC around for that battle, too, but she actually survived because the party hit hard and fast enough.)In my last Spelljammer game, I pulled this off once: some Valenar elven riders got killed by dinosaurs before the PCs' eyes.  Then the PCs and a named Valenar NPC almost got killed by same, because I conflated MM3 CRs with MM1 CRs. :\  They managed to pull through after dropping unconscious multiple times, though.I tried it on a couple of other occasions, but each time, the PCs and NPCs in the encounter managed to bring down the enemy before even the red shirts could die!  Partly due to pitifully low rolls on the monsters' parts, but still.</blockquote>