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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 312956" data-attributes="member: 960">Try to help the players have fun.  (Some, you just can't help--they won't have fun no matter what.)  But most want to have fun.  If you meet them halfway, you'll all have a great time.Don't get bogged down in rules.  If you trust the players, go with their interpretations.  If you don't (you're sure you're right), have them look it up while the game continues.If you make a mistake, admit it, fix it, and move on.  If it's too late to fix it, just move on.Reward creativity.  Two recent examples I know of....(1) Party is in the frozen north.  Two PCs die.  No cleric around with "Gentle Repose" so the party sticks the dead PCs in a snowbank to preserve them until they can get raised.  DM said o.k.--rewarding their creativity in face of adversity.(2) Party is in the lands of Iuz (spit!).  Two dead PCs.  One PC is a druid with cursed "Pox mask" (made of dead elf skin) on his face, which causes nasty pustules and boils on his skin, not to mention the horrifying stench.  He also carries a boon of Iuz (spit!) with him.  He marches to the local temple of Iuz (spit!) and demands that the cleric raise his two minions, because he's on a special task for the evil one himself and needs these helpers.  The temple cleric is hesitant, but then spots the boon of Iuz (spit!) and demands it in payment.  The PC refuses to part with it (because it means so much to him--ha!), and eventually the cleric agrees to raise the two PCs--but at about double the cost, since the druid wouldn't give up the boon.  Totally outside the module, really shoud never have happened, but the judge let it occur.  It was a great role-playing encounter and the judge rewarded the creativity by letting the druid get away with it (at a hefty penalty in g.p.).</blockquote>

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