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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 8967257" data-attributes="member: 7027139">OK, let's switch to another hypothetical.There's this Dark Lord of Dark Darkness, who was foreshadowed within the game, and on top of that, the GM has been relentlessly dropping out of game teasers for the last few weeks, posting an artwork here, a blurred statblock there, a dramatic music track, all that.The hype train is real and the players are excited for the grand battle that will test every single skill they've learned along the game. They can already taste the salt of their sweat in the air, picturing, how tough and cool the challenge is gonna be, how they are gonna need to operate as a single cohesive unit, and how hard their asses will be kicked for a slightest mistake.They arrive at the entrance, bloodthirsty smiles are forming up on their faces with each word the GM utters about broken and mangled corpses of all the previous fools who tried to challenge the Dark Lord.And then the battle starts, and they completely wipe the floor with the guy before he even got to make his turn. They won. Hooray?Maybe the game will continue. Maybe there will be more choices, more challenges, more exciting gameplay, but here and now, they wish that GM will describe how the real Dark Lord appears, slowly clapping, amused that they thought they've won and proclaim how he will cut them down, make them apart, spray the gore of their profane forms across the stars, grind them down until the very sparks cry for mercy, how his hands shall relish ending them here! and! now! so the real battle can begin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 8967257, member: 7027139"] OK, let's switch to another hypothetical. There's this Dark Lord of Dark Darkness, who was foreshadowed within the game, and on top of that, the GM has been relentlessly dropping out of game teasers for the last few weeks, posting an artwork here, a blurred statblock there, a dramatic music track, all that. The hype train is real and the players are excited for the grand battle that will test every single skill they've learned along the game. They can already taste the salt of their sweat in the air, picturing, how tough and cool the challenge is gonna be, how they are gonna need to operate as a single cohesive unit, and how hard their asses will be kicked for a slightest mistake. They arrive at the entrance, bloodthirsty smiles are forming up on their faces with each word the GM utters about broken and mangled corpses of all the previous fools who tried to challenge the Dark Lord. And then the battle starts, and they completely wipe the floor with the guy before he even got to make his turn. They won. Hooray? Maybe the game will continue. Maybe there will be more choices, more challenges, more exciting gameplay, but here and now, they wish that GM will describe how the real Dark Lord appears, slowly clapping, amused that they thought they've won and proclaim how he will cut them down, make them apart, spray the gore of their profane forms across the stars, grind them down until the very sparks cry for mercy, how his hands shall relish ending them here! and! now! so the real battle can begin [/QUOTE]

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