Originally Posted by Blackheifer
Originally Posted by Sigi98
Originally Posted by Blackheifer
Like with the dragon, a cutscene plays where the dragon takes off and then incinerates your entire party - No combat starts, you just die. There is precedent for this with Planescape Torment, certain actions lead to no-combat instant death.

I'm not sure about this. Yeah, stupid decisions should have consequences, but insta death is just frustrating, nothing else. You should at least get the chance to fight the dragon when it attacks you, even if your chances of survival are slim. In a tabletop session, players would be outraged if the DM said 'and you all die, no combat, the end.'

Yes but attacking an Adult Red Dragon in a brightly lit outdoor area with no real cover at level 4 is about the dumbest thing you can do - in a TT session a good DM would give you several outs and warnings and ask a ton of questions before allowing the action to take place. If no one headed those warnings, hints and so forth then game over. Better luck next time.

That is a realistic encounter. If you allow combat to start you open the door for players to cheat and use black-magic fuckery to try to win an encounter they could never win.

One way or another, at least our stupid choices would have consequences. Anything that isn't just 'the dragon and the githyanki rider fly away' would be an improvement.