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I think this is the important point. Do the other players care? Have they complained? This is to some degree a group problem, not a DM problem. If they dont care about the issue, then leave it alone. I would tell the player that his character is a problem, and that if someone else starts having...

dang it, I cant give you another XP! :D

The whole pointlessness of this discussion is what is 'win'. A fight that derails the game, even if the players thought it was awesome would not be a win if it irritated the heck out of me. I am playing the game too. A fight that causes someone to waste time making a character instead of playing...

I have to agree wholeheartedly. As a DM, my perfect fight ends with the PCs victorious, less than a surge of hit points between them, and no deaths. Why? Cause forcing one of my players to spend play time making a new character, and forcing myself to spend play time adjusting my campaign is a...

Then you should be fine. You may think that they are taking the loss worse than they should but they may just need a bit of cooldown. Having a TPK that was cause I messed up as a player would be more annoying than, well, pretty much any other kind of TPK. It would leave me a bit grumpy too :)

I have to concur also. SnowleopardVK, you say they are sore losers and they need to suck it up. What is their opinion if what happened? Do you know it? If it does turn out that they think that you jumped another Monk in just cause they won the first fight, then the problem is on you, not...

No, it isnt. :)

I would imagine he is highly motivated to avoid you. Should you manage to miss his pathetic AC, you dont get a free attack. This is the only good example. The prior editions made this an almost instant death. 4e chose not to do that. You arent in a fight with the tree 'attack' dosent really...

What war crime? Shooting deserters is still legal. I dont agree that it is Deathwatch that is the reason, but why the heck would someone want to be a Guardsman? Have the whole game be 'Get treated like crap till you get sent on a suicide mission' dosent seem like fun. I just disagree that 'Be...

I am really starting to wonder if the stores here in Houston are the exception, not the rule.... :)

One thing to remember when talking about Games Workshop. It is a miniatures game company not a roleplaying game company. Especially since they farmed out WFRP to Fantasy Flight.

I have to wonder if there isnt a rather massive difference in corporate culture between the US and UK branches of GW. Specific examples below: I dont disagree with anything so far, but I will point out that a lack of profit does make it a bad company '(B)rainwashingly so'? Are Apple customers...

We dont know enough to make bad decisions either :) When it comes out, I will check it out. If it dosent do what I want it to do, then I will wait till 6e and check that one out.

An in game solution is 'Your tactically experienced fighter thinks your plan is complete crap.' Players that do abysmally stupid things frequently do them because they are working under misimpressions. The DM should fix them. If the DM dosent fix them, then the TPK will not result in learning...

Players that dont give me headaches. Having a long term metaplot I want to develop. Sometimes things dont work out right and the game dosent last long, but if I have good players with interesting characters, I can usually come up with a plot that will get the game to last several years.

I ran a 3e/3.5e game for 8 years. 1st to 17th level. We were playing barely once a month for most of that tho.

As a DM I dont worry about it because: As a player, I bought a bunch of arrows (300 IIRC) stuck most of them in a bag of holding, and didnt run out in 6 levels. Game ran out before the arrows did. I did occasionally have to take a couple actions to get arrows out of the BoH when my ready supply...

If you were really going to go through all that much trouble to get around the no dragonborn limit, I really would walk away from running that game. It says to me that you are not willing to flex at all to fit into the game I am running. Not a headache I care to nurse. My point was that it isnt...

Why would the players have any idea that taking out the two guards didnt make the fight easier, even tho you made two guys appear out of nowhere? The fact that your notes say "5 guards, even level encounter: Two guards are out on guard duty and will enter the fight on turn 2" does not mean that...

or it could be: DM: I have a Middle Earth based game I want to run Player: I want to play a dragonborn fighter DM: This is a Middle-Earth based game. Player: I want to play a dragonborn fighter! DM: There are no dragonborn in Middle Earth! Player: I want to play a dragonborn fighter DM...