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<blockquote data-quote="Ashrum the Black" data-source="post: 2469432" data-attributes="member: 1585">HaHa! Now my job and my hobbey have both been compared to herding cats! I love it!Yes, this happens all the time. I had a small section of an adventure that I read through and figured it should take no more than a night. A simple smash and grab of the dungeon and they'll be out right?Wrong!It ended up taking four nights and since they gave the villains so long to prepare it almost resulted in a TPK. The BBEG (a dragon) they ended up running from instead of fighting. I think the problem with the PC's not meeting our expectations is that they don't have the ability to see everything that's going on around them. They feed off our unspoken ques and sometimes jump to eroneous conclusions about the opposition. Thus they tend to get scared of things they don't need to, and get cocky to things they shouldn't. We sit back and shake our heads because we have the benefit of all the information. Maybe we as DM's need to make sure that we do a better job of passing along information to the PC's. (shrug)Of course sometimes their paranoia is so much more devlish and fun than what we've dreamed up to run. Which is why I try to let them have their head unless they are straying to far afield.-Ashrum</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ashrum the Black, post: 2469432, member: 1585"] HaHa! Now my job and my hobbey have both been compared to herding cats! I love it! Yes, this happens all the time. I had a small section of an adventure that I read through and figured it should take no more than a night. A simple smash and grab of the dungeon and they'll be out right? Wrong! It ended up taking four nights and since they gave the villains so long to prepare it almost resulted in a TPK. The BBEG (a dragon) they ended up running from instead of fighting. I think the problem with the PC's not meeting our expectations is that they don't have the ability to see everything that's going on around them. They feed off our unspoken ques and sometimes jump to eroneous conclusions about the opposition. Thus they tend to get scared of things they don't need to, and get cocky to things they shouldn't. We sit back and shake our heads because we have the benefit of all the information. Maybe we as DM's need to make sure that we do a better job of passing along information to the PC's. (shrug) Of course sometimes their paranoia is so much more devlish and fun than what we've dreamed up to run. Which is why I try to let them have their head unless they are straying to far afield. -Ashrum [/QUOTE]

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