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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5609714" data-attributes="member: 807">upstaging the PCs with a NPC is not an ideal situation.But it sounds like the players enjoyed it this time.  Just be careful not to repeat it or else it can get old, fast.It's easy to look back and think of some ways that it could have played out differently (maybe the wizard would have come a couple rounds later, maybe the wizard would have shouted "clear some space and i can come help you" or the PCs would have had to protect the wizard for multiple rounds so that he remained uninterrupted as he summoned the dino, maybe if the skeletons followed the PCs through the "loop" they got destroyed thus turning the PCs flee tactic into a valid tactic to destroy them and making them feel clever for thinking of it, or the wizard needed the bones from at least X skeletons before he could summon the dino and the dino would have instead just been the skeletal structure of a dino rather than a full flesh dino, ).But I recognize in the heat of the moment you went with what your gut was telling you... and really that's all you can do at a time like that...Players found it memorable so don't beat yourself up over it.  Just learn from it and move on!</blockquote>