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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2690473" data-attributes="member: 22622">Do any of you bait players? Do you think baiting players is fair?  Here's the situation.  I've done this a lot in my current campaign, but have never made it look as obvious as I did last night. The entire session is built around a town and a puzzle.  The party receives a scroll of jump, a scroll of haste, and a scroll of fly. They have one clue that says haste makes waste, and another clue that says waist not.  They reach an area with a sign that says go faster, run faster, speed up.  They get to the sign and they ponder what the sign means.  I remind them that they hve a scroll of haste (the bait).  There's some discussion and someone rationalizes "well the dm told us we have a scroll of haste we must have to use it, despite the fact that several party members brought up that it would be wasting the scroll as their spot, listen and search checks received nothing.  They used the haste and came to a part later in the adventure where they needed the haste to make some beavers build the damn faster.  They finished the adventure and received only partial treasure for not recovering all of the stones.  Today, I got an email from two of the players (a married couple) saying how they were upset that they were baited to use the scroll and thinks i should provide all of the treasure.  I explained that it wasn't the first time I"ve thrown bait out there and they've taken it, but it was the first time that the results of taking the bait and not roleplaying were pretty obvious.  Was I wrong for throwing out bait?  I ask againDo any of you bait players? Do you think baiting players is fair?</blockquote>

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