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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9513142" data-attributes="member: 7006">Me personally... I don't default to the game mechanics, I go based upon the narrative that is being played out.  And then once that decision gets made, if mechanics become necessary then I will use them as appropriate.In this particular case... I would really just concern myself with the black dragon and what it wants.  What is its motivation right now?  Does it actually want to find these PCs and try and get revenge on what they did to it earlier?  Is a frontal assault the best way the dragon would feel to do that?  Or would it rather bide its time, lick its wounds, and decide on some other method of revenge against the party (like go find the body of the dead party member and use it or ransom it?)If it was determined that a full frontal assault on the party WAS the only thing it desperately wanted to do... then Stealth checks would be virtually unnecessary, as the dragon would basically just rampage across the entire landscape looking for them, destroying all the trees and potential cover the party could possibly hide behind and thus find them all by actually getting them plainly into line of sight-- thereby removing any possibility of using Stealth to begin with.To avoid that eventuality, the players would have to find really good places to hole up in order to not get seen by the dragon in that way-- trying their best to just wait it out and hope for the dragon to eventually give up.  Hiding in a cave or tunnel or something like that.  But if the party was just trying to continue "travelling stealthily"?  Then they're going to get found regardless of whatever game mechanics could be used because narratively-speaking there's no way an adult black dragon flying through the jungle would not be able to pick out a heavily armor tank tromping through the forest no matter what the other two character might try doing.Does this method go against the rules and ideas of our more mechanically-inclined membership?  Yup.  But that's fine.  They have their way of playing, I have mine.</blockquote>

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