03-12-2018, 03:39 PM
(03-06-2018, 10:37 PM)DM Dougfan Wrote:(02-21-2018, 03:11 AM)Nexendia Wrote: [OoC: Whether we beat them to death or scared the wolves away we still defeated the wolves. The same is true with traps. Whether you destroy, fly over, sneak around or disarm a trap, you get XP's regardless of how you get past it. ]
[ooc: physically avoiding an obstacle does not grant XP. Some amount of agency into mitigating the obstacle itself must be accomplished before XP is to be awarded. Otherwise, you could cast a fly spell, fly over a room full of creatures, and start churning out huge amounts of XP. That can't work.]
[OoC: It depends upon the objective and the level of threat. Just flying over something to gather experience wouldn't be enough. But spending resources to find a way to avoid the encounter because you need to get to the cave they are guarding on the other side should be worth something. In our case we expended resources and managed to scare off a group of wolves that were more powerful than us. The wolves were also not evil and were only following their instincts. So chasing them off rather than killing them is actually defeating them creatively. ]
"Well, since most seem to want to continue to explore the forest shall we delve deeper or should we explore its perimeter first?"