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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 6922979" data-attributes="member: 6855204">Yeah, I just remembered, I’vebeen the Candy DM so far.  I ran a oneshot with some friends, a few of which had played before.  We had, like, three weeks before we could allget together to play, so I had them role up new characters, give me theirbackgrounds, and I wove them all together. I even decided to have some of their old characters be NPC’s.   One of the old NPC’s, whichwas from 3.5e, and had a Mercurial longsword. Apparently, that meant that on a crit, it did 4x damage.  I didn’t see anything like that in the DMG,so I decided a Vorpal Sword would work instead. Why not, right?  The players were all starting at level 8, and he was going to be much stronger than them.  And, he was going to be charmed by the BBEG and attack the party, forcingthem to fight their old character. Muahaha!  Only I didn’t tell themthat I switched his Mercurial Longsword with a Vorpal Sword, which beheads on acrit.  His first attack against theirprimary fighter, the only one who could maybe go toe to toe with this guy, the first attack of the round, was a crit.  I couldn’t do it.  I couldn’t just take him out of the fightaltogether on the first round.  Maybe, ifthey’d been fighting a while, and they were close to winning, but not in thefirst attack.  There’s no coming backfrom a beheading.  So, since I hadn’ttold them that anyway, I just mentally switched it to 4x damage, since they allknew about his sword anyway.  The guy wasstill pissed, but at least he wound up coming out of it alive.   I don’t know when we’ll all beable to play again, since it was hard getting us together that first time, butI think I’m going to have them all role up a backup character, cause I need toget over this “I don’t want them to die” mentality.  Otherwise, there’s just no tension!</blockquote>

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