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<blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5463611" data-attributes="member: 73683"><p>Let's forget the toad for a moment, and let's imagine that you were running a game in which you've included an encounter that involves a very powerful pixie - let's say, an elite or solo pixie, intended to be the primary threat of the encounter whether or not it includes other monsters. The party fighter successfully grabs said tiny pixie, and then announces to you, "I stuff it into the bag of holding and close it."</p><p></p><p>How do you, as the DM, adjudicate this?</p><p></p><p>Do you allow him to do it, removing the primary threat from the encounter in a single fairly easy grab check, and setting a precedent for the now-preferred way of disposing of tiny-sized threats (in essence removing tiny-sized monsters as viable challenges to your PCs going forward, unless you specifically design them to circumvent this tactic, which is cheap in its own way)?</p><p></p><p>Do you tell him he has to make another check to stuff the pixie in a bag, even though the pixie is already grabbed? How do you justify this additional check in the game world?</p><p></p><p>Do you announce that it simply cannot be done, in the interest of maintaining the intended level of challenge of the encounter?</p><p></p><p>And, to top it all off, what part of your choice and/or rationalization would be different if you were playing 3rd/2nd/1st edition as opposed to 4e?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannager, post: 5463611, member: 73683"] Let's forget the toad for a moment, and let's imagine that you were running a game in which you've included an encounter that involves a very powerful pixie - let's say, an elite or solo pixie, intended to be the primary threat of the encounter whether or not it includes other monsters. The party fighter successfully grabs said tiny pixie, and then announces to you, "I stuff it into the bag of holding and close it." How do you, as the DM, adjudicate this? Do you allow him to do it, removing the primary threat from the encounter in a single fairly easy grab check, and setting a precedent for the now-preferred way of disposing of tiny-sized threats (in essence removing tiny-sized monsters as viable challenges to your PCs going forward, unless you specifically design them to circumvent this tactic, which is cheap in its own way)? Do you tell him he has to make another check to stuff the pixie in a bag, even though the pixie is already grabbed? How do you justify this additional check in the game world? Do you announce that it simply cannot be done, in the interest of maintaining the intended level of challenge of the encounter? And, to top it all off, what part of your choice and/or rationalization would be different if you were playing 3rd/2nd/1st edition as opposed to 4e? [/QUOTE]
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