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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamol" data-source="post: 6511346" data-attributes="member: 6692280">Once two PCs who always were kind of unfriendly towards each other became pretty aggressive. They pulled out their weapons, rolled initiative and one got killed by a critical hit. It's not like it was my fault as a DM, but I could have intervened somehow (at least by saying "stop that guys"). The last session I had this modified Cultist spellcaster (reskinned into a wizard) that cast a chromatic orb on the bard. In fact it didn't kill him, but it was only a few hit points to insta-kill. I felt a little bad for it anyways because this poor bard got targeted all night long (he did a lot of risky movements) and dropped like 3 times. Hopefully the player (or the character) learned his session and won't be so offensive again. Besides killing PCs (which always gives me a bad feeling) I'm feeling more guilty when the players got great ideas and I somehow don't manage to include it into the adventure or break off creativity by saying "that won't work". That was the main problem I got for some time, now I tend more towards improvising (sometimes) what the characters expect might happen. For example they entered a tent and there was this big locked chest. The characters stopped and started talking about how it might be secured and started checking for magic and traps, so I threw something in just to keep the tension up they created. Killing off player's creativity is what let me sleep bad after a session.</blockquote>

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