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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6874900" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Last night my party spent quite a while figuring out how to not get killed by a trap that they (correctly) assumed must be there because of the bisected kobold corpse on one side of the room with his footprints leading up to a statue in the otherwise undisturbed dust of the room.There was a lot of thinking and a little bit of experimentation. I probably repeated my description of the room about 4 times while they were going through it, just to make sure they weren't missing something I thought was clear. I still haven't figured out how to explain things in such a way that the players get the proper picture in their head. My friend has the exact same problem when he DMs, so maybe it's not unusual. You have a very clear picture in your head, but it can take a bit of doing to make sure the players' vision is the same as your own, and in some situations it matters. (In this situation they did finally figure out the safest and most rewarding way to deal with situation, getting the item and not setting off the trap. They could have tried other techniques, but they might have been riskier.)So what I'm thinking is that, dumb as it sounds, maybe you just need to recap everything they've experienced a couple of times. Don't obviously call attention to the things they need to be paying attention to, but do make sure to include things in passing that the characters would have noticed but the players might have missed. So no, "did I mention that part about how you learned that that you can't kill BBG without destroying the heart that isn't in her body first?" but maybe something like, "...and then you found that note mentioning something about a heart..."</blockquote>

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