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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 3614319" data-attributes="member: 40177">in our STAP game, it's been pointed out a couple dozen times that most of the Olman natives on the isle of dread are, well, useless.  In a sort of "it's amazing there's any of htem here at all.... I mean, there's so many baddies on the island!".Which has led to the Olman's preferred battle tactic:  throwing spears and running away.I've had a few Olman NPCs use quotes along those lines:"yeah, we had to throw spears and run for HOURS before it finally got tired of chasing  us and eating the stragglers.  We won the battle, though.  Either that, or it was full and wanted to sleep it off.""You guys call that fighting?  You didn't even throw a single spear, and not one of you ran.""I am the greatest warrior in my hunting party, but that's because I was lucky.  Most of the people in my hunting party had burnt their feet before we came across the demon.  We could all throw our spears; only I could run. "***We have a Goliath in our group, who is an amazing damage-dealer, but that is easy to hit.  We also have a cleric, who has a very high AC.In one fight, against some large creatures with a bite attack, they seemed to flock to the cleric, letting the goliath move around and pick them off at his leisure.  The Cleric was glad that they'd focused on her, even though it denied her spellcasting, because her high AC meant she was relatively safe.  Still, after the fight, she couldn't help but wonder why they kept going after her."It's because they're terrified of me." the goliath bragged."Actually, I don't blame them.  If I were them, I wouldn't want to eat something that looked like you, either."And then, later, in a fight agaist a dinosaur with a swallow-whole ability, the goliath gets swallowed in the first round or two.  The fight is an epic one, with the goliath only escaping six or seven rounds later (he had to improvise a weapon to escape).  The dino puked out the Goliath before getting torn to pieces by the Paladin and Cleric.The Goliath, standing in a puddle of puke, starts wiping himself off, a little stunned."See?  I told you guys he tasted bad!" the cleric shouted.</blockquote>

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