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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 81166" data-attributes="member: 69">Wow, this sucks. A little beefing about game-table politics and the matchhead is lit. Allow me to address some points, then I'll go to the smooth-over hug-n-kiss session.The purpose of this thread was to get some opinions on what I did right in Dm'ing the dragon, and what I could have done better. I've picked up a lot of ideas and been shown a lot of mistakes. I did state at the beginning that I don't want any characters reading this, and I don't know why they did anyway, but that's pretty much moot now.  Well, there's a large part of the problem. I wasn't groaning and bashing my head against my fists because it was stupid. It was mostly that I had prepared for the first third of the module that night, and wasn't prepared IN THE LEAST to tackle the epitome of white dragons. I also had to quickly cross-reference teleport, bag of holding, and other elements to keep things from falling apart. PLUS, it looked to me to be a TPK. I put a lot of love and time into the campaign, and I didn't want to see it shot to hell over something you might read in Knights of the Dinner Table. What I meant by this was much more along the lines of Dennis Hopper in Speed mumbling "Don't &^$% with daddy," then pushing the bomb button. The players messed with a dragon and fled. They threw rocks at the bee hive, and can't run far enough from what's coming.  I told the players beforehand that I was definitely going to use the house rule. I confessed to wavering, but that didnt' mean I was committed to do it. I stood by my decision.  I didn't start it to complain about the players, and I did talk to the players about the problems. Ask anyone around here- I rave about my players. They bathe, they're sociable, they wed. As a side-note to that, DM'ing is a thankless job. It really saps you when you put a lot of effort into a game and you never hear a compliment or word of thanks. That's okay. What's draining is when you hear the complaints that are really just barbed comments disguised as jokes. I don't believe "livid" and "beyond mad" are my words... please don't put them on me, because I wasn't. Vek put it much better: I flipped out for a while. Breakdown time. "Waaaaughhh!!", etc.So, here we are, it seems some people think that blows were thrown, and there's some cleanup to be done. This has happened before. I'm not as familiar with the group as they are with each other, and I might not know what lever not to pull once in a while. When something like this happens, it'll undoubtably put me in a bad situation because I'm the new guy, and am easily closed out of communication. I'm really not sure what's being said of me right now. Stupid ^&$$ing dragon...</blockquote>

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