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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7879466" data-attributes="member: 6895991">1. It depends on the level of system mastery a player has. If he is a DM himself i am merciless. I might tell hi mafter the session. I might be nice if it is really on the edge.2. If somebody is mostly a recreational player he gets reminders all the time if necessary, i am glad enough he shows up regularly and accept that for him it does not go that kind of in depth like for me.Example for 1:Big fight coming up group faces a white dragon, i calculated upfront that they have an approx 60/40 chance to manage that encounter without dead PCs if they go all out from the first round and i also communicate that.Mage has a nice little toy for shits and giggles and for me as last resort deus ex machina, a little mechanical chicken which can spit fire (1d4) and does so at the most impossible times.So the very experienced player, playing a battlemaster, has initiative on the dragon, he starts: "Ah i try to pickup the chicken and thorw it into the maw of the dragon." This got me nearly crazy, i said to him "did you not listen, you got one chance, do your action surge and superiority dice and whatever you got from round one, leave the chicken that is MY deus ex machina tool!"Well they did win with only two characters out of 5 in the deathsaves and survived. Had i gone along it would have been a total party kill.Example for 2:We are all not native speakers and one guy is especially bad at english and he is not so much into system mastery, so if he missinterprets something or forgets something he gets help everytime he needs it.</blockquote>

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