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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5196126" data-attributes="member: 18701">This was one of my first hard learned lessons as a DM. I made the mistake of taking alignment too literally and used it as an excuse to transform an elf ranger into a hulking white beast (sort of like Thing from Fantastic Four). In my defense, I thought the player would find it really interesting, and I gave him a special camouflage ability. But the player didn't think it was as cool of a concept as I thought it was <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />As cool as removing the ear would have been story wise, as others said, you need to think about if the player will be ok with it or not. Personally, something like that would be fine with me as a player because I find it more realistic & it adds character to my PC (and a good story to tell). But most players can't handle losing a freaking magic item & throw a tantrum about it, so you just gotta know the player.But to answer your question, yeah, I always realize after a game that I should have handled a situation differently and I missed out on it. On the flip side though, more often I realize after a session that I can do something in the next session that will be fantastic based on what happened in a previous session. This happened again this very last session. The PCs used a magic item to create a zombie follower. Then they had it follow a moving caravan while they talked to the patrons of the caravan. They even put a sign on the zombie that said something like, "Harmless, do not touch him please."As lame as that was, I was thinking that I had to have the caravan guards kill the zombie because they don't know who ordered it to follow the caravan, and because...it's a dang zombie! But I recently thought that instead of doing that (and upsetting the players), when the PCs retrieve the zombie, they are going to find it covered in splats of mud, pebbles stuck in it's flesh, rotten vegetables hanging off it, & x-bow bolts & a couple arrows protruding from his body. Rather than kill it, the guards decided to use it as target practice for fun. It won't be dead so the players can't complain, it'll be amusing & unexpected, and I get to roleplay the guards boasting about it which will be fun for me <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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