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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuaziquestGM" data-source="post: 3131031" data-attributes="member: 22559">It depends on which game.The Friday night newbi game with the kids?  Yeah, I fudge.  And I let them know that I am doing it by only using the GM screen for that damage roll after asking "How many hp do you have left?"  They know it is the "kids game".The Thursday night game with the college group?  Hey, you knew that you were joining the game at level 1, the party leader is level 2, the tracks up the trail indicated apes, you heard the plot hook story about the wizard who tried to train an army of apes who got eaten by them, you choose not the bypass the probabal ape abode, and you didn't protest when the leader had the elc 5 cohort to stay and guard the only healer in the party at the wagon 100 yards away from the building that you could just bypass as it is 100 yards off of the trail to the old mine on the map.......  All rolls in the open, firing at an ape surrounded by pcs will likey result in friendly fire, and the first guy who says TPK is the one who gets eaten by the one surviving ape while everyone else stabilizes and the cohort walks up and finishes off the apes last 4 hit points.  This is the adult game.  Difficulty setting on high.  (and also the reason that I usually give the NPC "cleric" a psionic level) (the cohort was someone they were supposed to kill but diplomacied into joining them instead....sometimes npcs end up being "treasure")And occasionally I get some players who are annoyed as they apparently didn't realize that this is the "Grim and Gritty" game.  Almost every fight leaves only 1 PC standing to stabilize everyone else and then they hold up for a week and hope nothing comes along to finish  them off.  Almost all magic items are earned, and the "free" ones all come with plot devices.Thus far in 2 months I've only had 2 pc deaths (same pc) and 1 recurring npc death.  The regular players are loving it.And anytime I tell anybody the CR of the creature before the walk in...."of course you are hiding in the corner....I told you it was a CR 38...." (APL 25)</blockquote>

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