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<blockquote data-quote="seskis281" data-source="post: 3027612" data-attributes="member: 41593">Throwing something at PCs at early level that they should run from is never a bad idea - as long (IMHO) as it's not an every session kind of thing. The post above about making sure they have options for evasion is important. Now if your group wants to charge in screaming &quot;I'm the king of the world....&quot; - well, that's a lesson.I did one game where on the way to their first encounter the group encountered some bad ass Trolls and two decided &quot;let's get 'em!&quot; New characters joined the party soon after, but the players were a little more careful. The reason you don't want to do it too much is that characters can get in a &quot;defensive&quot; mode - another game I ran saw the characters camping for a week outside a well entrance to an underground cavern, trying to throw everything they could down it to kill anything before they descended - REALLY slowed play down and I had to improvise a kidnapping of an NPC to get them in gear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seskis281, post: 3027612, member: 41593"] Throwing something at PCs at early level that they should run from is never a bad idea - as long (IMHO) as it's not an every session kind of thing. The post above about making sure they have options for evasion is important. Now if your group wants to charge in screaming "I'm the king of the world...." - well, that's a lesson. I did one game where on the way to their first encounter the group encountered some bad ass Trolls and two decided "let's get 'em!" New characters joined the party soon after, but the players were a little more careful. The reason you don't want to do it too much is that characters can get in a "defensive" mode - another game I ran saw the characters camping for a week outside a well entrance to an underground cavern, trying to throw everything they could down it to kill anything before they descended - REALLY slowed play down and I had to improvise a kidnapping of an NPC to get them in gear. [/QUOTE]

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