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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3301157" data-attributes="member: 18701">Uhg, the session I DM'ed last weekend was ruined because of my idiot brain. The players didn't feel it was ruined, but as a DM, you other DM's know what I mean  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> It was the final "big boss" encounter of the underwater adventure I ran. The players finally learned what the deal was with the backstory and were shocked & surprised. The had time to buff up before the encounter, and they planned to send in the cleric PC invisible and get a surprise attack. They didn't realize that water still displaces around an invisible person, so when he swam out for the attack, the bad guys saw him coming and were not surprised. So what do I do 2 rounds later when the BBEG just took a pounding from the cleric and is 1 round away from dying? I try to figure out how to keep him alive rather than attack or dispel the clerics buffs. I think to myself, "Brilliant! I can turn invisible, and swim out of range and then I'll have a few extra rounds to dispel magic AND make some attacks!" So the BBEG goes invisible and swims away. Two initiative counts later and a player says, "Wait, don't we still see where the invisible guy swam to since the water is displaced?" For one, this BBEG was over a 1000 years old, born underwater & lived underwater all it's life, & used to be powerful enough to rule an entire civilization...she never would have turned invisible & moved like that. And second, I just explained the displacement rule 20 minutes earlier!What a joke....I turned what was supposed to be a really hard encounter into an encounter that was easier to defeat than the shark encounter they had a few sessions before. The BBEG only cast 1 out of 3 fourth lvl spells...I curse this stupid brain I have!</blockquote>

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