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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5096448" data-attributes="member: 2067">I roll with it. What's the worst that could happen? "Oh no, I can't throw challenges like X at the party anymore because I was too broad back there a few sessions ago, now I'll just have to use some other of my trillions of DM tricks to challenge the party, how awful."If people are having fun (and being cool is part of the fun), I don't give a frig. I think a lot of DMs are too paranoid of powerful characters, with the ability to shape the story and bypass threats. It is not like "frozen shut doors" are the only things that can challenge your party. Even if they get a free pass on every door that is frozen shut for the rest of the campaign (and in a one-shot, that's not much time), and perhaps even some other ice-encrusted things, so what? Though this is my view only. I like rolling with powerful characters, reacting to the wrenches they throw into my plots, letting them feel powerful and making their enemies even more powerful in order to threaten them. Perhaps the next frozen door I want to challenge them with is shut with Levistian Ice from a glacier the Nine Hells in which a rouge devil is trapped for eternity. It takes more than mortal magic to unfreeze it.Perhaps I just don't hurl frozen doors at them anymore.I get that some DM's panic over the prospect, but for me, at least, it makes the game MORE fun.</blockquote>