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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 1533363" data-attributes="member: 16212">I think I'd enjoy inflicting a TPK, although in many many years of DM'ing I've never managed to. Also, the reaction would vary greatly across my group: one guy would almost certainly huff and puff and demand to know what dice I rolled and when, and at the other end of the table one of my other players would undoubtedly relish going out in a blaze of glory.I have players who know the rules as well as me, and those who don't. I have players who've played as long as I have (twenty years, man and boy), and those who... haven't. I enjoy running an encounter that defeats the experienced players, because like it or not, you *are* in competition with them. You can see it in their eyes. They watch your every move for tell-tale body language. They listen intently to combat descriptions, trying to discern every tactic and special ability. They sit for 20 initiative segments with a smile on their face, trying to catch your eye as they patiently wait for their turn, certain in the knowledge that you have no defense against what they have planned.That's pretty cool. It's less cool for the newer players, over whom a TPK tends to crash like a hurricane leaving them holding a d20 and wondering why their turn isn't, after all, coming up.So, what was the question again? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 1533363, member: 16212"] I think I'd enjoy inflicting a TPK, although in many many years of DM'ing I've never managed to. Also, the reaction would vary greatly across my group: one guy would almost certainly huff and puff and demand to know what dice I rolled and when, and at the other end of the table one of my other players would undoubtedly relish going out in a blaze of glory. I have players who know the rules as well as me, and those who don't. I have players who've played as long as I have (twenty years, man and boy), and those who... haven't. I enjoy running an encounter that defeats the experienced players, because like it or not, you *are* in competition with them. You can see it in their eyes. They watch your every move for tell-tale body language. They listen intently to combat descriptions, trying to discern every tactic and special ability. They sit for 20 initiative segments with a smile on their face, trying to catch your eye as they patiently wait for their turn, certain in the knowledge that you have no defense against what they have planned. That's pretty cool. It's less cool for the newer players, over whom a TPK tends to crash like a hurricane leaving them holding a d20 and wondering why their turn isn't, after all, coming up. So, what was the question again? :) [/QUOTE]

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