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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8698945" data-attributes="member: 19857">I marked True. Because I can't even imagine a pointless combat in the game I run anymore.&nbsp; If there's an encounter and the PCs escalate it into a combat encounter, who am I to decide it's pointless and try to deescalate it?&nbsp; If I'm rolling on a random table for a random encounter, then it's part of the game and has some kind of point - I wouldn't have made up the random encounter table to use if I didn't think there was a point to using it, and if I thought there was no point in rolling on it I'd just skip rolling on it.I suppose a pointless combat might be one where the PCs so outmatch their foes that it's not going to be interesting or fun for anyone but for everything to make sense there really should be a fight where the players just stomp on their foes - at which point we'll likely just do it as a montage instead of as a tactical combat to save the time.&nbsp; I suppose that might count as avoiding a pointless combat? If we do it narratively instead of tactically?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8698945, member: 19857"] I marked True. Because I can't even imagine a pointless combat in the game I run anymore. If there's an encounter and the PCs escalate it into a combat encounter, who am I to decide it's pointless and try to deescalate it? If I'm rolling on a random table for a random encounter, then it's part of the game and has some kind of point - I wouldn't have made up the random encounter table to use if I didn't think there was a point to using it, and if I thought there was no point in rolling on it I'd just skip rolling on it. I suppose a pointless combat might be one where the PCs so outmatch their foes that it's not going to be interesting or fun for anyone but for everything to make sense there really should be a fight where the players just stomp on their foes - at which point we'll likely just do it as a montage instead of as a tactical combat to save the time. I suppose that might count as avoiding a pointless combat? If we do it narratively instead of tactically? [/QUOTE]

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