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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6694226" data-attributes="member: 29398">Thinking about the whole whack-a-mole thing brought me to a rather absurd - but very possible in the run of play - place.Most combats a PC party faces are with more or less run-of-the-mill monsters who don't have all that much going for them other than toughs and a trick or two.&nbsp; The rules as written support this sort of thing just fine.But consider this: what happens when the PC party's opponents are in fact another adventuring party, who - just like the PC party - have sources of at-will in-combat healing and some tactical know-how?&nbsp; Barring some significant dice luck one way or the other the inevitable result is that the combat goes on for hours, if not forever (!), with most of the participants vacillating up and down between 0 h.p. and +1 as they get repeatedly healed and pounded; at which point we have arrived at madness.Lan-&quot;starting to wonder if the designers really thought this through&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 6694226, member: 29398"] Thinking about the whole whack-a-mole thing brought me to a rather absurd - but very possible in the run of play - place. Most combats a PC party faces are with more or less run-of-the-mill monsters who don't have all that much going for them other than toughs and a trick or two. The rules as written support this sort of thing just fine. But consider this: what happens when the PC party's opponents are in fact another adventuring party, who - just like the PC party - have sources of at-will in-combat healing and some tactical know-how? Barring some significant dice luck one way or the other the inevitable result is that the combat goes on for hours, if not forever (!), with most of the participants vacillating up and down between 0 h.p. and +1 as they get repeatedly healed and pounded; at which point we have arrived at madness. Lan-"starting to wonder if the designers really thought this through"-efan [/QUOTE]

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