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Typical player mindset
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::
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okay, the Kraken takes 1 damage.
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“While it is usually immune to nonmagical damage from +0 bolts, because you rolled a 20, the kraken will recognize you next time you’re nearby. It is currently too busy gleefully dismembering dozens of legendary adventurers to do respond. The captain, noticing that the titan’s gaze is fixed directly upon you, has put it to a vote whether to toss you off the ship. 0 damage, by the way.”
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::I had a thing set up with a Illithid giving the party a quest, hitting them with a psionic holding ability and one of my players threw a fit about being held when he had a feat that specifically said it only prevented him from being held by *magic spells*, and not spell-like abilities or psionics or any other "magic but not really" mechanic. So I let him move. He attacked the Illithid. So he also died.
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::
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it's weird they didn't use either the WoW trading card  or the Hearthstone card  which are both part of real games.
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it's weird they didn't use either the WoW trading card  or the Hearthstone card  which are both part of real games.
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::Some stuff to remember, if you don't want a TPK Never expect that the party will surrender. If you tell the party *it's dangerous don't go there* , you can bet they'll be there by the end of the evening Ignore the critical fail rules when a PC use explosive
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Some stuff to remember, if you don't want a TPK Never expect that the party will surrender. If you tell the party *it's dangerous don't go there* , you can bet they'll be there by the end of the evening Ignore the critical fail rules when a PC use explosiveFourth thing to remember: If your party suffers an avoidable TPK once, they won't do it again
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“While it is usually immune to nonmagical damage from +0 bolts, because you rolled a 20, the kraken will recognize you next time you’re nearby. It is currently too busy gleefully dismembering dozens of legendary adventurers to do respond. The captain, noticing that the titan’s gaze is fixed directly upon you, has put it to a vote whether to toss you off the ship. 0 damage, by the way.”"Shoot him again Steve!"
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Because the kraken art in op post is from a mtg card. I forgot the name but I have it somewhere in my binders
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It's by Craig J Spearing on Bloomburrow Commander's Octopus token: https://scryfall.com/card/tblc/14/octopus
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Fourth thing to remember: If your party suffers an avoidable TPK once, they won't do it again> If your party suffers an avoidable TPK once, they won’t do it again Maybe not the *exact* same TPK, but some will definitely find another very avoidable TPK and try to solve it via headbutts
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::: spoiler Transcription The GM: \*Makes a clearly overpowered monster, intending for the party to flee.\* The Party: [Picture with the text "Hit him with your crossbow Steve!" overlaid, of a large octopus/squid-like creature with tentacles raised out of the ocean. It towers over a pair of humanoid figures, one holding a staff in one hand and pointing at the squid with the other, the other person aiming a crossbow at it.] :::
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It's kinda a game flaw. Combat is usually encouraged by most modules, and fleeing is typically a bad option mechanically. So what else do players do? The only solution is to make running the painfully obvious choiceThe other solution is to have an alternative 'out'. Like if the overpowered enemy doesn't actually want to kill the players, but knock them out and capture them. Or if there's an established (non–deus ex) rescuer who can come in and save them...preferably in a way that forces them to *escape* without removing the threat from being there in the future.
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The other solution is to have an alternative 'out'. Like if the overpowered enemy doesn't actually want to kill the players, but knock them out and capture them. Or if there's an established (non–deus ex) rescuer who can come in and save them...preferably in a way that forces them to *escape* without removing the threat from being there in the future.Enemy clerics and paladins can be so tremendously badass. "I will bring you back to life just to *kill you again* for having the *audacity* to invade my temple, you Godless worm." Then they keep gloating until the wizard casts Dimension Door or Boblin the Goblin shows up with his friends and throws a molotov.
