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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salthorae" data-source="post: 7843278" data-attributes="member: 1095">I don't see the difference in a powerful NPC foe swooping in to "kill" the king vs. a dragon swooping in to "eat" the king to really be any different from an encounter perspective personally. You apparently do, so I guess great that you see that distinction. For me, they're the same thing, same scenario.I think you're either a) being presumptuous to assume exactly what players "won't roll with without build-up" or b) maybe projecting your own viewpoints a bit too hard on the generic "players" you're talking about here. I'm telling you that my experience with my players is that they would roll with this kind of a scenario. I've never done the exact thing, but now I'm tempted to just as a social experiment. I'm also not sure why you keep calling this hypothetical NPC encounter/foe a GMPC either. If you were to bring a Szeth-like NPC to waltz around with the party and beat all their enemies, I can see it being obnoxious and obviously a GMPC. But for setting up a mid-tier bad guy or even campaign BBEG I don't see someone who is above the PC's power level as "obnoxious". Certainly not if I can build it with PHB+1 and it would be Adventurer League legal. Obnoxious is a really strong word for something that could essentially be a plot point or starting point for a plot in a game.</blockquote>