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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaudius Rex" data-source="post: 7053036" data-attributes="member: 6807408">I am the DM of a very fun a good group of players, running Out of the Abyss.Last night, I my players battled a Death Tyrant beholder. They are all level 13 and 14 players. The cleric in the group acted first on initiative and turned undead right away. This poor beholder critically failed (he rolled a natural 1), and was subsequently turned as per the rules.This made this particular battle easy as the beholder could not escape and was tucked into a corner.What bugged me,...is later that night, i heard one of the players scoffing at the battle, telling someone on the phone, that "I went easy on them" by throwing a "cowardly beholder".This could not be further from the truth. He is a seasoned player, and was paying attention, so its hard to understand why he said this, from my point of view. I wanted to have a more challenging battle myself, of course. A Death Tyrant is the most difficult beholder in the game, with a CR 14. He was a guardian in a wizards tower. By no means, was he a coward.I can only speculate that this player wanted me to fudge the dice so the battle would be more formidable....which i understand.Admittedly, I have fudged dice in the past. But its a tricky thing to do as DM. I want some adherence to the rules, and dont want to break them every time. Plus, the beholder rolled a critical fail, in which really I really couldn't justify fudging the saving throw for this poor beholder. I just didnt like that one of my favorite players (he's a good guy) was mocking me, or belittling the encounter. It gives me mixed feelings about him......anyone want to try to make me feel better about this? or was he right?!</blockquote>

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