DonTadow
First Post
I just saw a player do one of the dumbest things I've ever encountered in my years of DM'n. The party have reached the final floor of the dungeon. There's a big seven headed dragon toasting party members and breathing fire everywhere. As the rest of the party deals with the monstrosity or tries to find someplace to hide. One player ironically the rogue, travels down a hallway and finds a large pentagon drawn in crimson ink on the floor. It takes up the whole hallway. She detects terrible evil from it. A round of initiatives go by and I ask her what she's doing. Without heastitation she says she's jumping right in the middle of it. I ask her again? "YOu're what?". She says i'm going to jump right in the middle of it and see what happens.
The pentagon is a trap that opens up the floor into an endless pit. I asked her again if she was jumping on it and she said yeah. This happens with 2 hours of playing to go. I'm trying to think of what to do. I didn't think anyone was dumb enough to fall for a simple pit trap. Plus she's a rogue, and she didn't search anything. She didnt try to avoid it, and she purposely told me that was what she was doing. So now her character's dead. And I pretty much told her that much.
Now I have a problem. I hate rolling up characters with this player. She's a headache in the character creation process. She tries to sneak things in that I won't catch, which means I have to carefully examine her characters and figure out how they fit into the campaign. Part of me doesnt feel like going through it.
Then again, that was idiotic and i'm glad that the trap was designed to kill a player that makes such a decision. NOw, with it being never ending, sure she could have survived somehow, but I'd have to write some serious suspend belief stuff to make it make sense. (party has sense left the location and the location began to crumble).
What would you do? I am really dreading rolling up a character with her. This is one of many dumb decisions I've seen this character make (she's been the subject of previous rants).
Also, side question, What do you do with players whom continue to make character destroying stupid decisions?
The pentagon is a trap that opens up the floor into an endless pit. I asked her again if she was jumping on it and she said yeah. This happens with 2 hours of playing to go. I'm trying to think of what to do. I didn't think anyone was dumb enough to fall for a simple pit trap. Plus she's a rogue, and she didn't search anything. She didnt try to avoid it, and she purposely told me that was what she was doing. So now her character's dead. And I pretty much told her that much.
Now I have a problem. I hate rolling up characters with this player. She's a headache in the character creation process. She tries to sneak things in that I won't catch, which means I have to carefully examine her characters and figure out how they fit into the campaign. Part of me doesnt feel like going through it.
Then again, that was idiotic and i'm glad that the trap was designed to kill a player that makes such a decision. NOw, with it being never ending, sure she could have survived somehow, but I'd have to write some serious suspend belief stuff to make it make sense. (party has sense left the location and the location began to crumble).
What would you do? I am really dreading rolling up a character with her. This is one of many dumb decisions I've seen this character make (she's been the subject of previous rants).
Also, side question, What do you do with players whom continue to make character destroying stupid decisions?
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