Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="smbakeresq" data-source="post: 7554900" data-attributes="member: 28301"><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤣" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" title="Rolling on the floor laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> The same DM who let a player craft a shield he wanted from an ankheg shell, probably with some special ability, is now a douche because the crafter forgot something and had to play 1 whole encounter working around it?I never heard anything like that being declared as poor DMing for 40 years, especially when the player himself laughs it off.&nbsp; It’s absurd to think that.Do guys like you just hand wave everything off except actual combat?&nbsp; I have seen players like that, who just assume they don’t have to track anything, don’t RP, don’t list any non-combat items on their sheet, have no background for their PCs, etc.&nbsp; They don’t even take plot point notes.&nbsp; It’s all just optimization of the PC for a combat role with everything just glossed over, expecting the DM to remind them or bail them out if need be.No one who believes this would ever make it through something like the Living Greyhawk campaign, or most campaigns for that matter.&nbsp; And your example is dumb, every DM would tell you to prepare for cold weather and if they don’t you should be asking what conditions to expect.&nbsp; It’s part of the background information you should be pumping the DM for before every single adventure.&nbsp; It literally takes 15 seconds of RP to do that, if you don’t do it you deserve to die.&nbsp; It’s even easier today, you can ask by email before you even get to the table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="smbakeresq, post: 7554900, member: 28301"] 🤣 The same DM who let a player craft a shield he wanted from an ankheg shell, probably with some special ability, is now a douche because the crafter forgot something and had to play 1 whole encounter working around it? I never heard anything like that being declared as poor DMing for 40 years, especially when the player himself laughs it off. It’s absurd to think that. Do guys like you just hand wave everything off except actual combat? I have seen players like that, who just assume they don’t have to track anything, don’t RP, don’t list any non-combat items on their sheet, have no background for their PCs, etc. They don’t even take plot point notes. It’s all just optimization of the PC for a combat role with everything just glossed over, expecting the DM to remind them or bail them out if need be. No one who believes this would ever make it through something like the Living Greyhawk campaign, or most campaigns for that matter. And your example is dumb, every DM would tell you to prepare for cold weather and if they don’t you should be asking what conditions to expect. It’s part of the background information you should be pumping the DM for before every single adventure. It literally takes 15 seconds of RP to do that, if you don’t do it you deserve to die. It’s even easier today, you can ask by email before you even get to the table. [/QUOTE]

Verification