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<blockquote data-quote="Grog" data-source="post: 3820673" data-attributes="member: 6183"><p>Things that do enough damage to kill a character with a single roll of the d20 are pretty rare IME, especially compared to how ubiquitous save-or-die effects become at high levels.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem is, not all encounters are created equal. Yes, if the PCs win a run-of-the-mill encounter in round 1 with a save-or-die, that's no big deal. You can just move on to the next encounter. But if it's a big, climactic battle with the BBEG that you've been building up to for months, and they win it in round 1 with a save-or-die, that's a problem, because you can't just whip up another big, climactic battle on the fly. Those kinds of things take time to build up to.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So then, the PCs should metagame and take less effective spells just to artificially prolong the fight past the point where they could have ended it? Because that's really the only alternative.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, it's more likely that their reaction will be something along the lines of "We spent three months building up to <strong>that</strong>??"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grog, post: 3820673, member: 6183"] Things that do enough damage to kill a character with a single roll of the d20 are pretty rare IME, especially compared to how ubiquitous save-or-die effects become at high levels. The problem is, not all encounters are created equal. Yes, if the PCs win a run-of-the-mill encounter in round 1 with a save-or-die, that's no big deal. You can just move on to the next encounter. But if it's a big, climactic battle with the BBEG that you've been building up to for months, and they win it in round 1 with a save-or-die, that's a problem, because you can't just whip up another big, climactic battle on the fly. Those kinds of things take time to build up to. So then, the PCs should metagame and take less effective spells just to artificially prolong the fight past the point where they could have ended it? Because that's really the only alternative. Actually, it's more likely that their reaction will be something along the lines of "We spent three months building up to [b]that[/b]??" [/QUOTE]
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