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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 314825" data-attributes="member: 1194">Well, I am going to have to enter the fray to smack James about the head and shoulders with a blunt fish.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />James - calm down, man.He used the word "spewing" in reference to your words.They did sound somewhat thrown out there.As a rule, you do NOT have the right to imagine vitriole and then respond in kind.He had most obviously NOT gotten personal, and did not deserve an attack the depths of which you launched on him.As to whether you're right or not, who cares?You forawrded 4 things:1) That ambushing a party increases the ECL by 4. Then you conveniently tried to "prove" that it wasn;t a problem by making the ambushing party only 3 levels lower than the PC party.I believe KD's point was that in theory, even if ambushing raises the ECL by 4, you still statistically would have a problem with PC parties being taken out by prepared lower-level NPC spellcasters.2) NPC spellcasters don't have the resources PC's do.While this part IS correct, does that fix the possible problem?3) High-level spellcasters can get out of this by using silly spells (IMO).What if the PC party in question isn't high level?What if they miss their first save and they're dead?4) You used your party as a barometer.Please.Don't do that.  It's insulting to some people.</blockquote>

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