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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 5313969" data-attributes="member: 467">As an aside, I had an interesting thing happen at my game related to too long combats:The PCs encountered an elasmosaurus in a watery cave (from the Kingmaker module Varnhold Vanishing) and once combat was joined it the party set up their tactics in such a way as to turn the thing into a giant sack of hit points that did not threaten them at all. I told them so and suggested we just fast forward to two or three rounds it would take to kill the thing. Strangely, they kept on going step by step, round by round: the necromancer wanted the hit points from a Vampiric Touch spell and other players just followed on with normal attack and damage rolls. Now, even though it was kind of a drag, an interesting thing emerged from that situation: I tend to ham it up as a GM, even with a mindless monster as it gets whittled down then tries to escape and is finally killed while squeezing through an escape tunnel. The druid player, who is relatively new to the game and role-playing in particular, ended up quite cross with another PC (played by her real life boyfriend) for murdering the thing when it just wanted to escape. And they ended up blocking one of their own avenues of exit should they need it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 5313969, member: 467"] As an aside, I had an interesting thing happen at my game related to too long combats: The PCs encountered an elasmosaurus in a watery cave (from the Kingmaker module Varnhold Vanishing) and once combat was joined it the party set up their tactics in such a way as to turn the thing into a giant sack of hit points that did not threaten them at all. I told them so and suggested we just fast forward to two or three rounds it would take to kill the thing. Strangely, they kept on going step by step, round by round: the necromancer wanted the hit points from a Vampiric Touch spell and other players just followed on with normal attack and damage rolls. Now, even though it was kind of a drag, an interesting thing emerged from that situation: I tend to ham it up as a GM, even with a mindless monster as it gets whittled down then tries to escape and is finally killed while squeezing through an escape tunnel. The druid player, who is relatively new to the game and role-playing in particular, ended up quite cross with another PC (played by her real life boyfriend) for murdering the thing when it just wanted to escape. And they ended up blocking one of their own avenues of exit should they need it. [/QUOTE]

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