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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8388658" data-attributes="member: 6778210">You can even go further than that: if you are going to be, say, exploring an area, it's worthwhile to research what could potentially be in that area. You can talk to local officials who might warn of places that might have been bandit strongholds or had recent raids, talk to the local ranger/guide to see what sort of wildlife you might encounter... if you have players who are interested in a bit of preparation, you can do some really cool set-up stuff.For example, you're going to go to the Screeching Woods. Well, why is it called the Screeching Woods? Through local knowledge or just asking around, you find out that it's an area with a particular breed of Screeching Owlbear. So without even setting foot in the area, you should know to be careful since Owlbears typically fight to the death. Suddenly you might want to invest in some sort of distraction or tactic that might allow you to bail out on a fight if it happens because the creature won't do it on its own.And once they enter? Well, they can find trees that have been rubbed up against with feathers lodged in them, they can occasionally hear the sounds, etc... you can give them opportunities to be on-guard, though there's always the risk that something bad can happen. And if they're too low of level... well, you entered the place. You either knew the risk or you didn't do the research.Sure. Thinking strategically instead of emotionally can be difficult, especially when it comes to leaving another player to potentially die. If I have one lucky thing, it's that my players have long joked about "the pirate code", so "any man who falls behind gets left behind" is something they can internalize. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/8xgqLTTgWqHWU/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47ff2nvt3mmyhhrdzdullmfkhgxtv74c53i8lpt5q2&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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