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<blockquote data-quote="glass" data-source="post: 3084798" data-attributes="member: 12251">I don't want to name names, but a lot of these strike me as stupid (or just bad) DM moments more than stupid player moments, and on that basis, I present my own recent stupid DMing moment.The first encounter in The Whispering Cairn (Age of Worms part 1) is [SPOILER]a trio of wolves.[/SPOILER] The PCs have just finished generating their characters, and we just have time for one encounter before everyone heads for home, to give the characters a bit of a shakedown. Unfortunately, one of the players has come up with a really cool [SPOILER]wolf-themed[/SPOILER] character, and I want this simple combat encounter as it is getting late and there is plenty of more complicated stuff coming up in future sessions.So I decide, without looking closely enough at the stats, to swap them out. For boars.Turns out, boars are CR 2 and very, very nasty. Three of them is certainly too much for a party of 4 1st level character (even if they are gestalt). One hasty HD reduction later and it is still a tough encounter, but at least it wasn't a TPK!glass.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="glass, post: 3084798, member: 12251"] I don't want to name names, but a lot of these strike me as stupid (or just bad) DM moments more than stupid player moments, and on that basis, I present my own recent stupid DMing moment. The first encounter in The Whispering Cairn (Age of Worms part 1) is [SPOILER]a trio of wolves.[/SPOILER] The PCs have just finished generating their characters, and we just have time for one encounter before everyone heads for home, to give the characters a bit of a shakedown. Unfortunately, one of the players has come up with a really cool [SPOILER]wolf-themed[/SPOILER] character, and I want this simple combat encounter as it is getting late and there is plenty of more complicated stuff coming up in future sessions. So I decide, without looking closely enough at the stats, to swap them out. For boars. Turns out, boars are CR 2 and very, very nasty. Three of them is certainly too much for a party of 4 1st level character (even if they are gestalt). One hasty HD reduction later and it is still a tough encounter, but at least it wasn't a TPK! glass. [/QUOTE]

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