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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5299047" data-attributes="member: 22779">I find the idea of telegraphing encounters to be very cliche and trite.  The first time we found a room full of very realistic statues in poses of horror, it was fun.  The third time it was a bit tired.  The three hundredth time it's lost quite a lot of its gloss.Yet, I'm told, that the way to use a medusa is to make sure that her presence is detectable by a party.  Apparently the medusa, despite being pretty smart, will always leave her used tools out where wandering people can find them and will only be encountered shortly after turning someone else to stone, thus giving the party a chance to hear her breaking apart the statue.Am I the only one who finds this utterly contrived and very, very cliche?Never minding the medusa who might have a maedar consort who can turn stone bits back to meat and EAT the evidence.  Naw, can't do that, because we apparently need giant neon signs advertising the presence of particular monsters.  RC's evidence is the presence of litter in a public park.  Try going to places where you get beaten with a cane for littering and see how much litter you find in parks.  (hint, Singapore parks are EXTREMELY clean)  If I'm going to give up my presence to everyone around me who is then going to send their biggest, and strongest to come and kill me, you'd think that the average medusa might, oh, I dunno, DIG A HOLE.  Put the evidence of her activities DEEPER into her lair so that people don't stumble onto it.But no.  Apparently not.Hey, if you're happy with recycling thousand year old cliche's in your game and your players are groovy with it?  Go for it.  Be my guest.  To me, it's a giant yawn fest to yet again see another room full of statuary.  Not to my taste.  I prefer my cliche's just a little less obvious.Obviously, YMMV and all that.But, since this is now turning personal, with people telling me that I'm apparently a hack at the table, despite having no actual experience with how my games run, I guess it's time to bow out.  I've said my piece.  I see save or die as a legacy piece of mechanics that was a bad idea even back in the day and have taken steps to make it better at my table.  Follow my advice or not, it's no skin off my nose.  When people start taking things personally instead of trying to actually discuss, it's no longer worth my time.Ariosto, you feel free to have the last word.</blockquote>

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