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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feathercircle" data-source="post: 1071989" data-attributes="member: 11266">Funny, I've got almost the exact opposite problem coming up in the near future...   my players caught onto what I had planned as a minor background thread involving cranium rats and pursued it completely out of proportion, keeping me on my toes inventing as I go along...  which is all well and good, other than the fact that they seem hell-bent on fighting the bare-brained rodents long before I'm ready for them to do so!  They're level 3, and they probably won't be more than level 4 or MAYBE 5 before they get there, and they want to go up against a pack of over 40 rats!I can't think of a way out of this without killing every single one of them...   they're charging in that much over their heads, no matter how many hints I drop...  they KNOW how dangerous cranium rats are in numbers that great, and they still seem to be planning on going through with this...  If they fight, they'll lose, so the only option I can see is for me to find a way to keep them from fighting..  Any ideas, anyone?Meanwhile, I admire your humilty, Spune, and I think you did a marvellous job of handling things.I disagree slightly with your Transcendant player, though...   My personal understanding of the Ciphers is that the optimal condition is one in which thought and action are one and the same, two parts of a single whole...   action without thought is nearly as bad as thought without action.But then again, I'm a Clueless, so I could very easily be wrong.  Simply BEAUTIFUL salvaging of a bad situation, either way.</blockquote>

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