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<blockquote data-quote="Y.O.Morales" data-source="post: 211244" data-attributes="member: 4783">Similar situation here: When the party arrived to a frontier town, the Ranger spots a suspicious man following him. He also follows the man until they arrive to a cemetery. The ranger asks the man who he is and he lies, but nothing bad happened after all. Then the ranger returned to the rest of the group who were praying at the church.When they exit the temple, they see a note saying: &quot;Those who are hunters and those who are prey... its how nature works. Survive for a day and your life will be granted&quot;. This note was from the man who was a member of cult who venerated the deity of hunt. Indeed, he took tha PCs (specially the ranger) as the prey for their rituals.A few days later, the PCs find that they are being tracked. By the end of the day they set camp and this is when the cultists finally catch up. Thus the battle begins. The PCs see that the group of cultist were lycanthropes so this was a very difficult battle, but still they wanted to fight to the end when running was the best option. After all, what the cultists wanted was a good hunt, not even to kill the PCs. They only wanted to chase them in honor of the deity of hunt. I even gave clear hints in-game and out of it. But still they wanted to fight. At the end they beat the lychantrophes (with two PCs unconcious), but because I fudged a LOT of damage rolls so no more PCs die of stupidity in the campaign. In my opinion, this kind of approach from players comes from two perspectives. First, they may think that the DM will not kill them because they are the PCs and whatsoever. Second, they may think that fighting is what the DM expects (and designed) the encounter to be and thus deciding other things could unplease the DM. So players out there, read me well, the DM is not&nbsp; the only one in charge of the game. You also get to decide what you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Y.O.Morales, post: 211244, member: 4783"] Similar situation here: [I] When the party arrived to a frontier town, the Ranger spots a suspicious man following him. He also follows the man until they arrive to a cemetery. The ranger asks the man who he is and he lies, but nothing bad happened after all. Then the ranger returned to the rest of the group who were praying at the church. When they exit the temple, they see a note saying: "Those who are hunters and those who are prey... its how nature works. Survive for a day and your life will be granted". This note was from the man who was a member of cult who venerated the deity of hunt. Indeed, he took tha PCs (specially the ranger) as the prey for their rituals. A few days later, the PCs find that they are being tracked. By the end of the day they set camp and this is when the cultists finally catch up. Thus the battle begins. The PCs see that the group of cultist were lycanthropes so this was a very difficult battle, but still they wanted to fight to the end when running was the best option. After all, what the cultists wanted was a good hunt, not even to kill the PCs. They only wanted to chase them in honor of the deity of hunt. I even gave clear hints in-game and out of it. But still they wanted to fight. At the end they beat the lychantrophes (with two PCs unconcious), but because I fudged a LOT of damage rolls so no more PCs die of stupidity in the campaign. [/I] In my opinion, this kind of approach from players comes from two perspectives. First, they may think that the DM will not kill them because they are the PCs and whatsoever. Second, they may think that fighting is what the DM expects (and designed) the encounter to be and thus deciding other things could unplease the DM. So players out there, read me well, the DM is not the only one in charge of the game. You also get to decide what you want. [/QUOTE]

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