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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfen Priest" data-source="post: 238774" data-attributes="member: 3909">Uhm, I really don't see what there is to be proud of here.  I think the general way to play is to make the game social, so that everyone is having fun.It doesn't sound like that happened that time.I've had way too many encounters with DM's who love to control the players (and the whole game), either by killing them for 'acting out' or through plot-railroading.  Both types of games really suck, IMHO.  It's like being back in grammer school.Frankly, I really don't see a big problem with attacking a mother bear.  It's fantasy, not like Greenpeace is going to jump out and have you arrested!  It's an animal.  Killing animals is morally OK, which is why McDonald's stays in business.My guess is that the other players slinked away, unwilling to help the other two, because they wanted to be on the DM's side.  The fact is, the DM shouldn't be on a side!  If all the players had fought the bear(s), they probably would've won.I had my DM 'punish' me in such a way when my character attacked two griffons once.  Apparently the DM thought they were Lawful Good, but he didn't bother to tell me that! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>