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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8578640" data-attributes="member: 97077">Except I didn't introduce this into the discussion. [USER=67338]@GMforPowergamers[/USER] did. I agreed that they could do it, but that there would be risks and trade-offs and what those might be specifically. If you've got a problem with the example, take it up with them.You're asking a question that isn't relevant, so I can't answer it. As shown in my other posts, the players aren't prevented from having familiars, nor do they have a "small chance to live." I have two PCs in my regular group with familiars, as I stated. So why do you see meaningful choices as "piling on difficulties?"I do it if given the opportunity. My players know this. They plan accordingly or, at least, understand when they don't why their familiar got taken out. The most recent example of this was when the party was fighting another adventuring group which my random generator for adventuring party names came up with "Four Warriors & A Pixie." So I established that the group had a pixie strung out on fermented honey in their service. They released the pixie from a jar and she buzzed about the battlefield, hindering the PCs during the battle. Among that was using her dispel magic on the wizard's familiar after he had cast dragon's breath on it. I thought that was a pretty neat turn and so did the players. (You don't see that every day.)Putting pressure on the PCs' resources, which is part of the game, doesn't disincentivize taking mounts, pack animals, familiars, or hirelings. It incentivizes making good decisions when deploying them. The incentive to use mounts, pack animals, familiars, and hirelings comes from what they can do for the party in the context of the game and however much fun the players derive from that.If you were correct in your assertions - and you're not - then we might reasonably see no mounts, pack animals, familiars, or hirelings in my regular game. But we do have those things. The PCs have a goat, three mules, 7 hirelings to man their river boat, and two familiars. At the moment, they also have an NPC cleric they just rescued and are traveling a long distance to bring back to town. So they need to protect that NPC too. I'll even add that protecting the boat is also a concern for the PCs - they ran into a monster with the Siege Monster trait recently and almost lost it! So no, there is plenty of fun to be had here. Maybe you don't like it because of past traumatic experiences, but as I said far upthread, please don't project your issues onto me or my group.</blockquote>

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