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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7546459" data-attributes="member: 16814">It's your table, so you'te the best judge of what your players prefer.&nbsp; I think you did well, esoecially if the character death would have been very disruptive to the table.&nbsp; Again, that's not something I can say anything about. I can say that at my table the character would have been dead or captured, deoending on the tone we had set at the beginning of the game, but that just my table.&nbsp; The player made choices that led to that situation, so the bad consequences are a direct result of player choice.&nbsp; To me, that's exactly when the DM gets to step up the nasty: when a player chooses a risky action and fails that's when the rat bastard DM claws come out.&nbsp; I dislike screwing over players when they don't make a choice or the choice is underinformed, but here your player chose to chase after a numerically superior foe all alone, got the benefit of their class abilities to reduce risk, and then lost the challenge they chose to engage.&nbsp; Perfect time for RBDMing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7546459, member: 16814"] It's your table, so you'te the best judge of what your players prefer. I think you did well, esoecially if the character death would have been very disruptive to the table. Again, that's not something I can say anything about. I can say that at my table the character would have been dead or captured, deoending on the tone we had set at the beginning of the game, but that just my table. The player made choices that led to that situation, so the bad consequences are a direct result of player choice. To me, that's exactly when the DM gets to step up the nasty: when a player chooses a risky action and fails that's when the rat bastard DM claws come out. I dislike screwing over players when they don't make a choice or the choice is underinformed, but here your player chose to chase after a numerically superior foe all alone, got the benefit of their class abilities to reduce risk, and then lost the challenge they chose to engage. Perfect time for RBDMing. [/QUOTE]

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