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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7190671" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>Sure, I understand your point. But I also think that sometimes outcomes are unexpectedly favorable. That kind of thing happens sometimes. Sometimes the little guy is able to defeat a greater foe. It's pretty much one of the oldest and most well known stories in the world. Sure, circumstances are a little different here, but someone punching up and overcoming a superior foe is not unheard of. Yes, I'm justifying it a bit....but why is that so bad? If the encounter works for someone as designed, great. If it doesn't, then come up with some explanation for how things played out as they did, or else change them. </p><p></p><p>And if the PCs never see Jordeth's statblock, then would there really be an issue? Perhaps when they attack the remaining giant along with Jordeth, they'll expect a bit more from him....but perhaps they'll realize he "got lucky" or that something else was at play here. You can even have Jordeth tell the PCs that he got lucky by managing to kill one of the giants. </p><p></p><p>As far as WotC's decision on it...I don't think your commet on this being "written by an intern" is very fair. I just think that given the level of importance of this encounter combined with how many people won't share your view on the comparative CRs, they just decided it was good enough as is, and didn't feel the need to devote more page space to this one off minor encounter by creating a new statblock for Jordeth. I can understand criticizing that decision, but I think perhaps you're overstating their negligence in this regard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7190671, member: 6785785"] Sure, I understand your point. But I also think that sometimes outcomes are unexpectedly favorable. That kind of thing happens sometimes. Sometimes the little guy is able to defeat a greater foe. It's pretty much one of the oldest and most well known stories in the world. Sure, circumstances are a little different here, but someone punching up and overcoming a superior foe is not unheard of. Yes, I'm justifying it a bit....but why is that so bad? If the encounter works for someone as designed, great. If it doesn't, then come up with some explanation for how things played out as they did, or else change them. And if the PCs never see Jordeth's statblock, then would there really be an issue? Perhaps when they attack the remaining giant along with Jordeth, they'll expect a bit more from him....but perhaps they'll realize he "got lucky" or that something else was at play here. You can even have Jordeth tell the PCs that he got lucky by managing to kill one of the giants. As far as WotC's decision on it...I don't think your commet on this being "written by an intern" is very fair. I just think that given the level of importance of this encounter combined with how many people won't share your view on the comparative CRs, they just decided it was good enough as is, and didn't feel the need to devote more page space to this one off minor encounter by creating a new statblock for Jordeth. I can understand criticizing that decision, but I think perhaps you're overstating their negligence in this regard. [/QUOTE]
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