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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 6340642" data-attributes="member: 43019">Depending on the edition of D&D, the PCs would be afraid of a house cat <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And might die just from being near a Nazgul, nevermind actually struck by one.I think it's reasonable for 1st level PCs to fear goblins, especially goblin shamans, hobgoblins and bugbears, and to just abject run from something like a Nazgul.In a not-5e game recently we encountered a cursed beast - I hit it for near-max damage and it bounced (did absolutely nothing). It then hit someone for about half that person's hp, with a Fort save required. We beat a retreat, eventually using terrain (locked ourselves in a jail cell) to avoid confrontation. Later, the group found out how to harm it and took it on more directly.But note that it didn't, say, kill someone on its first hit, cleave into another person to drop them. If we'd had closer to 10 hp instead of 20 hp, that's how it could have gone.</blockquote>