How to Survive Fantasy Fights

[Heroic Bilby]

Rule # 45: If you have magic powers, make sure they aren't attached to things that can be taken from you.

[Amari]

Rule #46: Don't Fight Sephiroth!

[Akito]

Rule #47: Relax, the final boss may beat you to a pulp at the start but he'll never outright kill you. He'll carefully and wisely bide his time until you're possessing powerful magical equipment, all the while sending meticulously sequential midbosses to helpfully level you up.

[Khimera]

Rule #48: The guy who looks the coolest isn't always the best fighter.

[Heroic Bilby]

Rule #49: If you find some enemy hiding away somewhere off the beaten path, not revealing itself until you've completed unnecessary tasks, and having nothing to do with your quest.... RUN AWAY! You won't want to fight that thing until you know you're at least twice as powerful as your final arch-nemesis is.

[angelous]

XD Nice bilby...

Rule Number 50ish: For those with an arch nemesis, you don't have to fight them just because they are, you fight them because they'll stop at nothing to defeat you!

>D

[Homac]

Rule #51:If a villager tells you to go to hell, listen to him more! It may be a sidequest.

[angelous]

Rule Number 52: Hell, no matter what you hear isn't a tropical paradise, so don't go through life being evil only to die just so you can go there. It is a bad bad place. I know... I've talked with Hades.

[Night Sky]

Rule#54: If you managed to memorize the rules up to this point, you'll still lose.

[angelous]

Rule 53: Don't listen to rule 52. If you've memorized the rules up to this point, what the hell you doing in a fantasy fight?

[* snatch .]

_{Rule #5_ : Party members are expendable. Save yourself over them.}

[Homac]

Rule #55: If the boat/airship/floating continent you're on is sinking/breaking up/falling, and a party member tells you to go on without him, chances are if you wait by your escape, he'll appear at the last moment to rejoin you and escape.

[angelous]

Rule number 56: Don't try for that dramatic escape from impending doom. You're wasting time and making it harder to get out alive. Just the the hell outta there.

[donald2]

Rule #57: Ignore the last two rules. They may be contradictory, but that isn't why you're ignoring them.

[nascent]

#58: It's a VERY BAD idea to use magical spells with long incantations, overly complicated hand motions, or rare mystical components while...

• Engaged in melee combat
  
• Fighting someone with unrealistic speed
  
• Fighting someone who can teleport
  
• Fighting someone who knows what that spell does and has even a 1% chance of doing anything about it

As a corollary to Rule 58, any spell that has to be announced out loud is generally a bad idea. It's the magical equivalent of saying "Hey! Listen! I'm going to swing my sword at you now, so get ready!"