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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DormanII" data-source="post: 6844539" data-attributes="member: 6827638">I've been DMing for a couple of years now and I seldom fudge rolls and usually let the dice fall where they may. This has led to many deaths (we play very often, sometimes several times a week) and we even have a graveyard where we place all the dead characters...and it is full. But recently, seeing people playing online and seeing them progress with the same characters for years and having these long, indepth stories for each of them and for the party in general...I started craving a party like that.So when it came to the party making some...frankly, awful choices and ignoring/missing some options that were right in their face, I just couldn't help but try to help them. Killing player characters is a horrible feeling...I hate it the bitter taste it leaves, eventhough it has happened quite a lot so I may have been a bit too obvious when trying to stop another party wipe (because frankly, they should have died if I had played everything straight). Now...I got one player complaining that I went easy and they should have died. Another saying that maybe I went too easy (but saying it nicely). Another who's happy with the outcome. And finally, one player that wants to play another character...but that player is integral the the "price" the spirits will demand since that character was the conduit...My idea for a different outcome was to chance the result of the wish when divine intervention happened. The one asking for the wish asked for everyone to be alive, instead of resurrecting them however...I was thinking of having time go back to the round before everything took an awful turn. After time would turn back, the wish maker would be the only one that would remember the alternate future and I'd talk to the player so he would jump into the well of power. That player would get a major power-up, giving them incredible powers but also the overload of energy would kill the character. The powered up character would easily be able to beat the boss and prevent the summoning. (Extra info: They faced the big boss while they were hurt, and weakened. The Boss was a powerful spellcaster and his wife was a strong melee fighter that was helping him. What made everything go to heck was the one of them managed to break the spellcaster's concentration and immediately after the wife was killed, causing the boss to become enraged and instead of focusing on the ritual, focus on killing the party...which he did with a single spell. After that, the boss tried to stab his magical spear into the well of power to complete the ritual another way, which would break the legendary spear and drain his wife's soul...but the sole survivor stopped him...and proceeded to stab the same spear into the well of power, thinking it was going to make it explode.)At least two of my players just told me that they want me to take it all back, but want a party wipe they deserve. That they want me to take back the wish because they feel I helped too much and they should have died.</blockquote>

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