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<blockquote data-quote="Dire_Pug" data-source="post: 3027709" data-attributes="member: 42462">I voted &quot;Other&quot;.&nbsp; I think that this is a &quot;Fair&quot; encounter as you didn't railroad them into having to fight the giant.&nbsp; I can certainly agree that player's should know when to fight and when to run.&nbsp; However, by putting an encounter like this in your game you run the risk of a TPK.&nbsp; I had a very similar experience as a player in a 1st Ed. AD&amp;D game.&nbsp; We were a first level party on our first adventure when we camped for the night.&nbsp; My character was on watch when the DM described what appeared to be a nightmare (big black horse with flaming hooves) that appeared at the edge of our camp.&nbsp; I must admit to doing some meta-gaming here.&nbsp; I figured that it must be an illusion as it didn't immediately attack and I knew that it was way too high level for us to fight, so I toosed a pebble at it.Wrong move.&nbsp; The nightmare was not an illusion.&nbsp; It stomped our entire party into the ground.&nbsp; The DM asked us why we didn't run when we saw it and I asked him why he had a monster like that appear at our campsite.&nbsp; He said that it was part of the random encounter table for the module he was running.Was the encounter fair?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; However, putting an encounter like that in the adventure really didn't serve much of a purpose and led to a TPK and having to restart the campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire_Pug, post: 3027709, member: 42462"] I voted "Other". I think that this is a "Fair" encounter as you didn't railroad them into having to fight the giant. I can certainly agree that player's should know when to fight and when to run. However, by putting an encounter like this in your game you run the risk of a TPK. I had a very similar experience as a player in a 1st Ed. AD&D game. We were a first level party on our first adventure when we camped for the night. My character was on watch when the DM described what appeared to be a nightmare (big black horse with flaming hooves) that appeared at the edge of our camp. I must admit to doing some meta-gaming here. I figured that it must be an illusion as it didn't immediately attack and I knew that it was way too high level for us to fight, so I toosed a pebble at it. Wrong move. The nightmare was not an illusion. It stomped our entire party into the ground. The DM asked us why we didn't run when we saw it and I asked him why he had a monster like that appear at our campsite. He said that it was part of the random encounter table for the module he was running. Was the encounter fair? Yes. However, putting an encounter like that in the adventure really didn't serve much of a purpose and led to a TPK and having to restart the campaign. [/QUOTE]

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