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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 1875409" data-attributes="member: 3208"><p>in the legend of the five rings setting campaign i am currently running, i have been trying like mad to make the players realise that the task they have undertaken is to big for them to complete on their own. I'll freely admit that i do kill characters as much as any dm i have ever played with or even heard of but i do not go out of my way to kill them, they just keep doing stupid things. anyway, they have tried the standard "party enters the haunted forrest without support" method twice and the first time they lived, barely because they skirted the forrest and never actually entered. the second time, two characters died within three days of entering the forrest because there are things in the forrest that the party cannot yet handle alone and i hit them with a creature that likes to strike from ambush. they refuse to request help from the many sources they have access to. ie the closest daimyo, a scorpoin clan daimyo who is a former party member, the father in law of two of the party members. a bayushi (scorpion clan) officer with hundreds of troops, currently serving in a nearby area. their own daimyo's are somewhat reluctant to send troops through the territories of other clans (minimum of two other clans territory) and it is just irritating that a two day trip away is a force they could use to stop me from using my random encounter tables and they instead just keep slamming their heads into the brick wall. it's killing me that every member of the party is a member of the nobility and they are just refusing to exploit that even to get some peasant millitia or something to desuade random attacks when i've made it clear that further failures may doom the empire</p></blockquote><p></p>

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