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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8871672" data-attributes="member: 4534">I see this on occasion even still.&nbsp; Players who were likely punished by DMs in previous games in the most stupid and mean ways.&nbsp; In one con game I ran this year, one of the players would go out of their way to tell me they were reloading their pistol after combat.&nbsp; After the second time I made it clear to them that they didn't have to explicitly tell me.&nbsp; We'll just assume your character reloads their weapons, and I promise I'm not the type of GM who is going to yell &quot;Got'cha!&nbsp; You didn't say you reloaded your pistol.&quot; when the next fight starts.&nbsp; It's like watching a dog flinch every time you pet it because it's so used to be abused.&nbsp; Sad.&nbsp; I tend to use traps sparingly.&nbsp; In part to avoid encouraging players to overthink every simple interaction in the game, but also because too many of them make the game tedious.&nbsp; You could use the contact poison as a trap.&nbsp; Uh, what I mean is, a decoy.&nbsp; Set it up so it appears to be a room full of treasure, but once they get past the poison and open the boxes, they find nothing.&nbsp; That explains why there's a bunch of contact poison they ostensibly need access to but in reality they don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8871672, member: 4534"] I see this on occasion even still. Players who were likely punished by DMs in previous games in the most stupid and mean ways. In one con game I ran this year, one of the players would go out of their way to tell me they were reloading their pistol after combat. After the second time I made it clear to them that they didn't have to explicitly tell me. We'll just assume your character reloads their weapons, and I promise I'm not the type of GM who is going to yell "Got'cha! You didn't say you reloaded your pistol." when the next fight starts. It's like watching a dog flinch every time you pet it because it's so used to be abused. Sad. I tend to use traps sparingly. In part to avoid encouraging players to overthink every simple interaction in the game, but also because too many of them make the game tedious. You could use the contact poison as a trap. Uh, what I mean is, a decoy. Set it up so it appears to be a room full of treasure, but once they get past the poison and open the boxes, they find nothing. That explains why there's a bunch of contact poison they ostensibly need access to but in reality they don't. [/QUOTE]

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