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Mr. Greene wrote:

Laithoron wrote:

Mr. Greene wrote:

Well what is combat?

Let me Google that for you...

Verb

Take action to reduce, destroy, or prevent (something undesirable).

Thanks that helped a lot! It does not only say kill!

A destroyed human is pretty dead.

True, but using the verb combat, its not the only option. A reduced human may be disarmed or grappled. While as preventing something may not need physical confrontation at all, but still combat.

I rolled initiative, so I have a license to kill?
So you wander in to a restricted area in the forest, say near a prison or something, a group of guards on patrol comes across your group in a hostile manner(That's what good patrol guards would do). You win init and kill a guard before any questions are asked. Without any information, no knowledge check, no fore warning? If you don't take the time to assess the situation you reap what you sow. Jail? Fines? Execution?
Blame could easily go both ways.
-Nervous and inexperienced GM, (How does a gm get experience anyways, I got better by running some terrible games and yes messing up some times. My vote is to work with the GM, build them up.)
-Blood thirsty players who think they are playing World of Warcraft and when combat starts they have to attack what ever is in front of them. Your not playing a video game, when combat breaks out you have other options besides killing what ever you just encountered and taking there stuff.
It all depends on the situation. So roll initiative, just don't think you can kill anything just because it is there.