Yeah, all of the Thorms (well, except Ketheric) don't have to be fought. But I take great pleasure in shoving Gerringothe off the roof.
You can avoid Ketheric fights too, you can make him kill himself.
If you have any sort of fire magic/bombs and/or thunderwave, its actually pretty trivial to chimp that fight with falling damage. I found the Flind fight way more bullshit for the level you can stumble into it. Most of the harder fights in the game have a gimmick to them that makes them easier, ignoring silly wombo combo shit people do that would never fly in table top. Some fights you have to almost intentionally screw up side quests to get hard mode (e/g not taking down the factory before confronting the archduke).
IDK how you could posisbly miss it. Its not the spider pit below the Goblin king guy its the in the town. You can drop down there through the well.
That's the thing. At lvl 3 you don't have a lot of this shit unless you planned for it and knew what was coming in advance.
Yeah, you certainly wouldn't know to do it on the first playthrough unless you were following a guide. I didn't know about the lulz way until something like the 5th time going through chapter 1, but having the spider as a pet in the Underdark was pretty fun.
I think the point was that through normal exploration, you can easily come across the spider boss early and a bunch of people chose to fight it at that time, for the challenge.
