CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Gah, bad memories.
I remember running "Lost Mines of Phandelver" as a weekend-long miniseries. One of my players...a friend of a friend whom I'd never gamed with before...was going to be joining us. I did my due diligence, asked everyone if they had played or read LMoP before, and everyone said "nope." But after the first couple of encounters, it became pretty clear that the Friend of a Friend had read the adventure beforehand. He seemed to know a little too much about the overall layout of the dungeon, enemy ambushes, etc. So I had to make a few changes on the fly to keep it fresh. No big deal, I can manage, it just would have been nice to know beforehand, ya know?
Anyway. I won't post any spoilers, but there is a pretty well-hidden magic item in that adventure. When FoaF's character got to a certain room, he immediately made a beeline to that hidden item's location and began rolling search checks. When his character repeatedly failed to find anything (I had moved the treasures and monsters around), he accused me of cheating. Threw a tantrum, then ended up sulking for the rest of the gaming session.
He wasn't invited back.
I remember running "Lost Mines of Phandelver" as a weekend-long miniseries. One of my players...a friend of a friend whom I'd never gamed with before...was going to be joining us. I did my due diligence, asked everyone if they had played or read LMoP before, and everyone said "nope." But after the first couple of encounters, it became pretty clear that the Friend of a Friend had read the adventure beforehand. He seemed to know a little too much about the overall layout of the dungeon, enemy ambushes, etc. So I had to make a few changes on the fly to keep it fresh. No big deal, I can manage, it just would have been nice to know beforehand, ya know?
Anyway. I won't post any spoilers, but there is a pretty well-hidden magic item in that adventure. When FoaF's character got to a certain room, he immediately made a beeline to that hidden item's location and began rolling search checks. When his character repeatedly failed to find anything (I had moved the treasures and monsters around), he accused me of cheating. Threw a tantrum, then ended up sulking for the rest of the gaming session.
He wasn't invited back.