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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 2942777" data-attributes="member: 29663">Have you ever slipped up as a DM and given too much information to the players accidentally?  Ever been a player and seen this happen?I messed up in my campaign recently and was hoping some of you could comiserate with me.My players are hiding out at an arcane academy after all their high-level allies were presumedly killed as the party fled a city ruled by evil guys.  Earlier, one of the allies, a chaotic neutral sorcerer had placed a Geas on the party rogue because he kept bringing trouble to the place where the sorc's son and the party were hiding out.  (The party had rescued the son from the evil guys in a previous adventure.)So back to the arcane academy...  The sorc, Brock, shows up and the party is completely shocked that he is alive.  I had decided that this would not be Brock, but rather a look-a-like that was assigned to keep an eye on the party and eventually assign them to enter an ambush trap under the ruse that they were sent to rescue his son...again.  I was doing well, and even though I kept dropping subtle hints that this was not Brock, like not knowing peoples' names or remembering details of past encounters, the party didn't suspect a thing.  My spy was getting well embedded within the academy and the party was doing quite well adventuring in the region for the academy, but then the rogue asked 'Brock' to remove the geas.  Brock played dumb, "What geas?""The geas that you put on me back in (Stronghold of the Nine).  I'm afraid that I might accidently set it off."<Rolls a knowledge arcana for the imposter=1, rolls a bluff=1>"What are you talking about?"At this point, the players started trying to remind me about the geas, thinking that I had forgotten about it.  I said that I remember, but Brock does not.  They said that he had to remember, anyone who is not a complete idiot would remember because it was a fairly high-stress situation, and had just happened weeks ago.  This is it, I thought, they are going to figure it out.  Then I slipped up, "This Brock doesn't remember."  DOH!We all had a good laugh, but I ruined the whole sub-plot with one four letter word.</blockquote>

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