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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 7864673" data-attributes="member: 5889"><p>I've Dmed for over 10 years. And in my very last game session, I felt like I blew it. I had been riding high, I was running a campaign that my players had been gushing about, literally texting me after sessions to tell me how much fun they had.</p><p></p><p>And then last session, I did an ambush session with mind flayers. It meant as a big trap by the big bad, one the party had some chance to avoid, but they went in. Every party member except 1 was stunned off the bat, but the last player just keep passing every single save. Long story short, I had a 5 round combat which was basically 1 player vs these swarm of mind flavor....who then wound up escaping</p><p></p><p>So now I had this scenario where every other player is unconscious and only one is around, trying to get everyone back. 3 hours left in the session...and it made no game sense to have them come out from unconscious (they were honestly lucky there was a plot reason they were even still alive).</p><p></p><p>I could tell the players were bored out of their minds. And one even said "hey man, can I just home for tonight?".....hadn't had someone ask me that in years. I kept asking myself "I should have had some backup characters for them, I should have done X, done Y....etc etc".</p><p></p><p>It hurt, but I retconned a few things, made a few adjustments, and moved on. And now planning some exciting stuff to get things back on track for next session.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The morale of the story....it happens. Every session will not be perfect, no matter how long you have done it. Just work to do better next time<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 7864673, member: 5889"] I've Dmed for over 10 years. And in my very last game session, I felt like I blew it. I had been riding high, I was running a campaign that my players had been gushing about, literally texting me after sessions to tell me how much fun they had. And then last session, I did an ambush session with mind flayers. It meant as a big trap by the big bad, one the party had some chance to avoid, but they went in. Every party member except 1 was stunned off the bat, but the last player just keep passing every single save. Long story short, I had a 5 round combat which was basically 1 player vs these swarm of mind flavor....who then wound up escaping So now I had this scenario where every other player is unconscious and only one is around, trying to get everyone back. 3 hours left in the session...and it made no game sense to have them come out from unconscious (they were honestly lucky there was a plot reason they were even still alive). I could tell the players were bored out of their minds. And one even said "hey man, can I just home for tonight?".....hadn't had someone ask me that in years. I kept asking myself "I should have had some backup characters for them, I should have done X, done Y....etc etc". It hurt, but I retconned a few things, made a few adjustments, and moved on. And now planning some exciting stuff to get things back on track for next session. The morale of the story....it happens. Every session will not be perfect, no matter how long you have done it. Just work to do better next time:) [/QUOTE]
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