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Message: <blockquote data-quote="conanb" data-source="post: 1803314" data-attributes="member: 17930">There are a few things that happen in my game that does sometimes throw players up against really powerful creatures, but rarely unless they're part of the landscape. Occassionally, we have large creatures that do run across the environment that are far too powerful for beginning players, but they don't go away after the players increase in levels either. Players in my games learn pretty quick that they often run into NPC's and other things that they don't have a chance of beating. These NPC's usually act as if the players are not a threat or what not, it's in these circumstances that sometimes new players will throw themselves at these powerful NPC's or creatures. If they do, you can see what i say in the TPK thread somewhere around here. "Goodbye players."To craft a real world, you are going to have creatures and NPC's that are very powerful. Now the players aren't going to run into them all the time because powerful people only meet with other powerful people. How many times do you see the president or the mayor sitting at the starbucks with you? It's rare, and one of those things where you go "Wow. That's the mayor." Players should get to have these experiences once in awhile. I like to do this then later have them meet up with the local ruler again who's like  "Do I know you?" and the players get to go into this diatribe about when they passed or what not.Creatures are the same. Stumbling upon large creatures in the wild is one of those things where the players should stop and go "Ok let's back up." If they don't, once again they're going to get mauled. My players learn to approach wild creatures with a certain amout of fear and skepticism. It's your job as a DM to break them of the "It moves lets kill it!" If you don't teach them there are repurcussions from their actions, they'll never know.</blockquote>

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