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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2256693" data-attributes="member: 15651"> You decided you wanted things to be different than the way it was turning out, so you could use the plot hooks you had, so you made a decision to sabotage what the players were doing.  It should be all about the players, not all about you.Did you give the players an opportunity to stop what was happening?  Drop a few hints that someone was still out there hunting?  Allow a spot check to notice the hunter?  Allow a PC to throw himself in front of the arrow, or knock the target out of the way?  From the way you described it, you just decided to drive the game the way you wanted it to go.  Keep it up and you will find that your party won't be creative or inquisitive, they'll just wait for the DM to tell them what to do, since anything else will be screwed anyway.Nope, not RBDM at all by my understanding of the term.  RBDMs are seen as evil geniuses -  not because they abuse DM power, but because they twist your own expectations and use your own ideas and solutions against you.  You hate them but respect them for what they are able to pull off, and look forward to trying to outwit them next time.</blockquote>