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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5215587" data-attributes="member: 31216">I got Player buy-in before starting it. Everyone was willing, and knew what Spelljammer was about.No, I made an encounter. An enemy ship (right out of the main book) of equal size to the PCs' ship. I made no "one way" to deal with the encounter. But just like when a DM places an encounter with a group of orcs guarding a treasure chest, and he expects the PCs will kill the orcs with a frontal assault and gain the loot, (you know, the standard operating procedure for 90% of parties), I expected a particular strategy and result.Expecting certain strategy and results is not the same as requiring a certain strategy and results.Remember, the Player's characters did nothing in the one encounter they got because the group chose to do nothing. There was no case of the PCs not matching the campaign, or the campaign being different than the Player expected -- they had met only one encounter, and essentially refused to engage it with their PCs.This is like the group choosing to fleeing/surrendering, without a fight, to the first [level appropriate] orc encounter they get in the campaign and then the Player deciding he wants to change characters. How to you base such a decision on just the very first encounter of a game? An encounter that you don't even engage with your PC?Bullgrit</blockquote>