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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5613209" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=5868]Olgar Shiverstone[/MENTION] and [MENTION=27051]Mark Hope[/MENTION]Poor DMing and ham-fisted? That seems a little extreme, but sure it could come across that way if used inelegantly; part of being DM is having a lyrical and propitious sense of timing. Or the right tool for the right job.Take the death of King Robert in A Game of Thrones. He summons Ned, the King's Hand, to issue his dying will in private. "Write this down Ned: I King Robert of House Baratheon, blah blah blah, fill in the rest, declare Joffrey-""Wait Robert, the party cleric has got this covered." Cure Moderate Wounds.There is a gravitas and deep impact this situation has on the plot, making the tearing up of this will be Cersei all the more terrible for the reader/viewer. I know that D&D is a different beast than AGoT, but I strive for a game that feels like it could come from the pages of a fantasy novel (albeit one off the rails).Having every dying NPC moment be solvable with a Heal check or healing spell seems to make scenes like this one impossible.Obviously there's DM fiat, which I am fine using though I try not to hit my players over the head with it. Body shots are fair game though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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