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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5290426" data-attributes="member: 58197">Well, once again this comes down to how you regard save-or-die. If you think of it as an auto-kill, which you can only survive by great good fortune and the grace of the gods, then it becomes a lot more logical that creatures with such abilities would be whispered of and feared.It's like dragons. A dragon is the sort of monster that makes its presence felt in the lands about. The peasants might not know about the owlbear den in the deep woods or the wights in the lost elven burial grounds, but they'll damn well know about the dragon under the mountain. Save-or-die monsters, if you're going to use them, should be like that.Does this mean they don't belong on random monster tables? Damn straight it means they don't belong on random monster tables. If I were going to try to put SoD monsters back into the game, I would create a separate category for them and creatures like them--call it "legendary." The categorization serves as notice to the DM that This Monster Is Special and PCs should not come on it unexpectedly.I'd also change the rules so that the chance of making the save is minimal--you should have to roll 17+, sometimes even a natural 20. A PC targeted by one of these effects should feel lucky when they survive, rather than unlucky when they don't. And DMs should be under no illusion that throwing these things around casually will result in anything but a TPK.Don't make it "save or die." Make it "[size=+2]DIE[/size] [size=-2]unless you save[/size]."</blockquote>

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