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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5326184" data-attributes="member: 90804">My first ever encounter in a role playing game was a bar fight.  It was unscripted, too.  Our party met in a bar (cliche, but half of us were first-timers) and encountered some humans arguing with some dwarves.  The humans had been hired by the dwarves to clear kobolds out of the dwarves' mine, and the dwarves were refusing to pay the humans because they said there were still kobolds in the mine.We intervened, and the dwarves offered us the job.  The humans got upset, so my no-charisma wizard tried to calm things down with diplomacy.  I rolled a natural 1.  The human took a swing at me, my goliath friend jumped into the fray, and the battle was on.It was a quick and easy fight, but we ran it as an actual encounter and it led to some of the best role playing we had in that campaign.  My wizard used Mage Hand to pick up an unattended tankard of ale and dump in on one of the humans.  My wife's sneaky ranger looted one of the unconscious humans when no one was looking, rejoicing in her clandestine bonus of 5 gold pieces.  This battle also started my wife's character's long-running animosity toward my character, as I Thunderwaved three bad guys but also hit her character in the process. Oops.In short, bar fights can be fun, especially if the players see it as a chance for some cool role playing in a battle where the outcome is never seriously in doubt.</blockquote>