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1) Yes, in that I agree that I should have had the witch interact with them sooner. However, I wanted to give them the chance to also take the option of killing the witch without talking to her. By having her do the ritual and be in a trance, they could get a sneak attack on her and kill her...

I hate the "gotcha" term so much. No, it was not set up as a gotcha. The witch isn't good, she's a neutral character with some morals. She seeks power through the use of souls, but is morally correct enough to not use souls of innocent people, thus she searches for evil ones. She is also not...

They are not new players, they have been playing with me for 2-3 years. The whole point WASN'T to ignore the map, but to approach it carefully. They thought the witch was dead and that was alright, they stole and all killed the witch's watchdogs. The problem came when they decided to ignore the...

So basically, I should stop putting any effort into plots and just give them random encounters all the time? They claim that they like RPing and one of them even wants to play a weak character because it's rich in RP potential...but then if there's any consequences to their actions, they just...

I run a game with two other friends, one plays a Lawful Good Paladin while another plays a Chaotic Neutral Wizard. These two budding adventurers (level 2) were on their main mission when a possible side-quest presented itself in the form of a map looted from bandits. The map pointed to a...

A little more information: The assassination victim is one of the party member's grandfather who has been thought to be evil based on the way that party member was raised. In truth he sheltered her far too much out of fear for her becoming like her parents. The party will be invited into the...

I actually make short rests last half an hour rather than a full hour. My party has a tendency of going nova early on, might be a side-effect of my rarely giving them long adventuring days but I can definitely warn them that this plot is long and they should be more careful. I like the idea of...

Anyone? :|

The castle is home to the assassination victim. The party is invited there and the assassin works for the victim, but stabs him in the back. The assassin also managed to turn several people in the castle to his side, meaning that a large portion of the castle will indeed turn hostile to the players.

Greetings, I'm planning a major plot for my party which is integral to the personal plot of one of them. The plot involves several uses of creatures from the Elemental Plane of Air as the big bad is basically trying to break free from it. The Party is composed of a Battlerager Barbarian, an...

Turns out, the paladin died on the very first session and very first encounter, due to a series of bad rolls for her and good rolls for the monster they encountered... She dealt massive damage, but was unfortunate enough to gain agro and take two crits from the Hard encounter they were fighting...

I was playing a one-shot campaign with a few other friends (some of them being part of the group I normally DM) when one of them created a level 10 paladin. So far, my group had little interest in paladins but after seeing this paladin in action they now love it. In one turn, this dual wielding...

What's best when faced with a situation where you want things to be subtle? The DM doing hidden rolls for the player, the DM telling the player to roll but not telling them why or the DM using passive skills? I know passive perception is very much a thing, I use it for when the characters aren't...

Update Had a talk with the group (not with the sorcerer, or Mr Cellphone as he has been called before, because he was busy). Apparently while annoyed at the NPC for tricking them, they were totally fine with what I did as a DM. They are already planning what to do next, coming up with all sorts...

I only brought it up because while he was the one paying the least attention, he was also the only one that got angry with what I did.

I honestly don't get why people are saying I did it as a passive aggressive attack because of cellphone guy. I would have done this regardless of him being on the phone or not. It wasn't a punishment for being rude out of the game, it was pretty much a warning for people to pay more attention to...

Well, I feel that had he been paying attention he would have realized that the ring was still stuck to the gauntlet. I made sure to point it out (that the ring was stuck there) and they made no mention between putting the armor away and going to sell it of ever trying to remove the ring. They...

Here's the whole development: The party owed their city's temple, they had resurrected a party member but the party only had enough money to cover half the cost. The temple then sent the party to a village in order to investigate a nearby dungeon. *fast-forward through dungeon* Dungeon Boss'...

Let me just say that my group is composed of my best friends, I love those guys but they annoy me sometimes. One of them is always on his phone, the whole damn time...he lifts his head when his turn is up in combat, takes a ton of time to actually do anything (doesn't help that he's a...

I talked about my barbarian issue before, which turned out to not be an issue at all once I reworked the encounter rate and such. Problem is, now I have another issue in that I'm afraid I might have pushed the characters too much this last session. Party comp: Level 8 Bear Totem Barbarian...