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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7162841" data-attributes="member: 6787650">If you want to slant it a little bit more in the players' favor, do any or all of the following:(1) place a herd of wild horses somewhere within an hour's journey of where they meet the roc.(2) ensure that the terrain has craters, trees, etc. in it for the player characters to hide in.(3) warn them well in advance of the roc's approach. Perhaps they see its shadow circling over them a good ten minutes before it actually decides to stoop to attack.This gives them a ton of additional options, including hiding until the roc goes away and then going back to catch horses to ride and/or to feed to the roc. Of course they might just decide to fight it--even then, you can have the roc quit as soon as it gets what it wants, presumably a meal.(Although if you listen to Henry you may decide that the roc needs to eat so much that it won't be satisfied with only one PC. It may end up consuming a whole herd of wild horses and all three PCs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7162841, member: 6787650"] If you want to slant it a little bit more in the players' favor, do any or all of the following: (1) place a herd of wild horses somewhere within an hour's journey of where they meet the roc. (2) ensure that the terrain has craters, trees, etc. in it for the player characters to hide in. (3) warn them well in advance of the roc's approach. Perhaps they see its shadow circling over them a good ten minutes before it actually decides to stoop to attack. This gives them a ton of additional options, including hiding until the roc goes away and then going back to catch horses to ride and/or to feed to the roc. Of course they might just decide to fight it--even then, you can have the roc quit as soon as it gets what it wants, presumably a meal. (Although if you listen to Henry you may decide that the roc needs to eat so much that it won't be satisfied with only one PC. It may end up consuming a whole herd of wild horses and all three PCs. :-)) [/QUOTE]

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