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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Osis of Liver" data-source="post: 164496" data-attributes="member: 2427">I have been acused of being a Rat bastard a time or two.Example 1: Stupid PC's jerk around in the first room of the dungeon for an hour, himin and hawin over the fire pit there and then wander over and just pop open the door to the next room. Not to dastardly right, the thing is they weren't being quite or snealing around at any point. The frost gaint had no problem hearing them, first guy through the door really got it. I crit on the gaints attack roll and maxed damage, poor thief!!! got split in two. Gues he should of tried some of those skills thieves are renowned for.Example 2: i give each player some piece of info that will alow the pc's to figure out who and what the main villian for the adventure is. Again, pretty tame except on a gamble i gave the most inportant info to a player that is some what infamous for being difficult when the time comes for sharing info or making decisions. It worked out real well to, they got POed at me after going back and forth with theories, doing resurch, ect for hours. When they found out the final information was right there the whole time i thought they'd kill me and that unfortuate player. It was also a really easy night for me, tuns of role play, very little dm work and every time they asked for a hint i got to say: "The party has all the info they need to figure this out"As for low magic i've gone both ways. The pc's generally like the low powered items they get from me becuase i always have a desript and thry to make the itrem as unique as possible. They generally hate me when they get powerful items from me becuase i've become somewhat infamous for adding flavor to these via strange drawbacks and command words that i hold them to. I think the worst was a shield that one player got through random chance, it was +5! So to balance things, well balanced in my mind anyway, as an added effect the shield became inmaterial if the attacker could not plainly see the shield, it was also non existant to ogres, rock gaints, and wolves three things the other guy that dmed these characters used habitualy.I don't know if this qualifies me as a rat bastard dm, but it has been fun sharing this stuff anyway!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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