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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 3203149" data-attributes="member: 545">As a practical matter, the potential for using brains to deal with encounters is more severely hurt by a lack of equipment than the brawn route.  FREX, a heck of a lot big scary monsters one is somehow supposed to lead to their doom will have a base movement rate of 40'.  A single bad roll or tiny tiny tactical mistake and someone will simply be eaten.  Running away is only likely to succeed if the DM outright coddles the PCs.  Playing by the book, it is pretty bad that way at low levels.  But the magic items acquired by middling levels tends to shift that dynamic to something more palatable for long term play.  Take away the magic items at higher levels and most of the party will look like plump low-level halflings in platearmor to the monsters.</blockquote>