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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1364027" data-attributes="member: 1210">Dude, you'd hate my game.  It's full of enemies with deadly and unknown abilities.Do you really believe you should know the capabilities of your adversaries in advance?  Would you be disgruntled if you went to fight a sorceress and she turned out to be a medusa sorcereress and you got petrified?  I'm not trying to sound snarky- I'm just puzzled by why this bothered you.  Maybe I should read the rest of the thread here. <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=";)" />I think the 'surprise!' elements of an encounter are crucial to maintaining the fun and suspense of the game.  If you become aware of an instant-death attack because one of your friends dies from it, it should make you all the more tense and frightened of the monster.  If you feel that knowing in advance is the only way to get the proper suspense, take the time (and often money) to carefully research everything you think you'll be encountering and you should be halfway there.</blockquote>