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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8002997" data-attributes="member: 6785785">It’s hard to say without knowing what adventure it is. If it’s Curse of Strahd as suggested, then I think confronting any of the different rulers among the various settlements of Barovia is well within the range of expected behaviors by the PCs. And none of these rulers hold sufficient power to make an attempt to kill/overthrow them a foregone conclusion one way or another. I suppose it’s possible. If I present a villain or other antagonist for the PCs to have to deal with, and they attempt to do so and fail, I usually see if there’s some other way for them to proceed.I get your point about their execution being a logical outcome. But is it the only outcome? If so, why? If not, what else could happen? I don’t know if I’d agree with that. I mean, instead of blaming the player for being bored, we could just as easily blame the GM for running a boring game. Neither seems all that fair nor all that productive. This ruler sounds as if he’s meant to be an antagonist. So PCs going after an antagonist seems pretty predictable to me. Now, maybe a direct confrontation is not what the GM had in mind. And maybe the fiction had clearly established that a direct confrontation was a bad idea. So it seems a conflict between player and GM expectations.</blockquote>