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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TreChriron" data-source="post: 8074638" data-attributes="member: 5046">I've been doing this for a bit, let me recollect;1) I once had an enormous army of orcs with awesome flying barges setup to "encourage the PCs to go another way". Yes I was young. This was one of my first campaigns. The PCs kept marching forward. I captured them, and tortured them, and then they were demoralized and didn't engage my "escape the orc encampment" scenario. This is where I learned that a) players don't like characters to be tortured (duh) and b) you need SOME sand in your box so you can adjust to the players... Had I just not worried about the direction they were going and adapted I could have avoided my stupid-escalation.2) Once, in a Vampire game, I tried to ambush the arrogant Tremere wandering around the ferry alone. The lone Gangrel struck but the Tremere won initiative and promptly used telekinesis to lift the G up, hang him upside down, and decapitate him. It was very anti-climatic. After that I just assumed his reputation got around and he could walk where ever he wanted. Alone even. That escalated the "power level" of the city way faster than I wanted.3) I used the "damsel in distress to place an evil spy" stick way too many times. It got to the point where the PCs were murdering anyone too insistent.4) I've had several games where I thought I was being all brilliant and the PCs solved the mystery in the first act and I had to scramble to adjust. I'm really starting to wonder how brilliant I really am... (as an aside, I'm currently running The Stygian Darkness AP for The Void RPG and the Plot Point thing they use is brilliant. I'm feeling pretty cheeky for the first time in a bit...).</blockquote>

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