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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7686112" data-attributes="member: 15700">I don't think you know what impartial means.&nbsp; Because it is entirely possible for that first level party to run into 8 beholders if those beholders were part of whatever area they were found in regardless of what the players did.&nbsp; Now, I have never seen an area with 8 beholders, so I think you're resorting to hyperbole to try to make a point.&nbsp; So I'll use a more realistic example.&nbsp; That dragon, or clan of hill giants that live in the mountains?&nbsp; They've always been there, and don't care if the party is level 1 or level 20.&nbsp; If the level 1 party decides to go explore those mountains where a dragon or giants are known to reside, then yes, I am an impartial DM to keep them there even when the party shows up at level 1.&nbsp; In fact, I would not be impartial if I changed the encounter and living game world to cater to the player choices.I fully admit that a lot of DMs aren't impartial, for good and for bad.&nbsp; But that does not mean that you can't be impartial as a DM, or that impartial DMs don't exist.&nbsp; We're out there, and our groups have been having fun in our games for decades.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7686112, member: 15700"] I don't think you know what impartial means. Because it is entirely possible for that first level party to run into 8 beholders if those beholders were part of whatever area they were found in regardless of what the players did. Now, I have never seen an area with 8 beholders, so I think you're resorting to hyperbole to try to make a point. So I'll use a more realistic example. That dragon, or clan of hill giants that live in the mountains? They've always been there, and don't care if the party is level 1 or level 20. If the level 1 party decides to go explore those mountains where a dragon or giants are known to reside, then yes, I am an impartial DM to keep them there even when the party shows up at level 1. In fact, I would [b]not be[/b] impartial if I changed the encounter and living game world to cater to the player choices. I fully admit that a lot of DMs aren't impartial, for good and for bad. But that does not mean that you can't be impartial as a DM, or that impartial DMs don't exist. We're out there, and our groups have been having fun in our games for decades. [/QUOTE]

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