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<blockquote data-quote="kiznit" data-source="post: 4579464" data-attributes="member: 3994">As a self-admitted rat bastard DM, I pride myself on making much of the game challenging for my players, and strongly believe in the importance of keeping them on their toes - Yes, I have coup-de-grace'd after sleep spells, in deference of going after PCs still up and about - I'm that evil. I've sprung surprise abilities and nasty tactics and ambushes on the players. I've hidden were-rat monks under the guise of &quot;spellcasters&quot; and done other sneaky tricks. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> However, a good game carries with it a wide spectrum of variety, IMO. I would be a horrible DM if I did that all the time, and though I lay awake at night chuckling sometimes about how to make an innocent-looking troop of goblins actually a finely-toned whirling death machine, I've come to realize that sometimes you want to let the players run roughshod over a regular old troop of goblins. It's important to give players moments in a campaign where they are in complete control, or to put it another way, circumstances where they really truly feel like they are the biggest badasses in the room, because that can be just as exciting a feeling as defeating a deadly challenge by the skin of your teeth.And similarly, when the PCs come up with a Really Clever Plan that will completely screw over your bad guys's carefully set trap, well, sometimes you should let them screw over your bad guys's trap, and make it clear how angry and surprised your bad guys are that they got one pulled over on them.It makes it all the sweeter when you do the same thing to them later. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="kiznit, post: 4579464, member: 3994"] As a self-admitted rat bastard DM, I pride myself on making much of the game challenging for my players, and strongly believe in the importance of keeping them on their toes - Yes, I have [I]coup-de-grace[/I]'d after sleep spells, in deference of going after PCs still up and about - I'm that evil. I've sprung surprise abilities and nasty tactics and ambushes on the players. I've hidden were-rat monks under the guise of "spellcasters" and done other sneaky tricks. :devil: However, a good game carries with it a wide spectrum of variety, IMO. I would be a horrible DM if I did that [i]all the time[/i], and though I lay awake at night chuckling sometimes about how to make an innocent-looking troop of goblins actually a finely-toned whirling death machine, I've come to realize that sometimes you want to let the players run roughshod over a regular old troop of goblins. It's important to give players moments in a campaign where they are in complete control, or to put it another way, circumstances where they really truly feel like they are the biggest badasses in the room, because that can be just as exciting a feeling as defeating a deadly challenge by the skin of your teeth. And similarly, when the PCs come up with a Really Clever Plan that will completely screw over your bad guys's carefully set trap, well, sometimes you should let them screw over your bad guys's trap, and make it clear how angry and surprised your bad guys are that they got one pulled over on them. It makes it all the sweeter when you do the same thing to them later. :D [/QUOTE]

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