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<blockquote data-quote="Gundark" data-source="post: 3346022" data-attributes="member: 6148"><p><strong>Maybe I'm not as killer as I thought, after reading some of these replies</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Maybe this is the kind of DM I should be. Believe it or not I don't fudge rolls for my benifit, if my BBEG rolls a one to save I play it as rolled. I craft appropriate CR encounters for the PCs. Yeah I know that if I was a totally $%*&@# and threw way overpowering stuff at them they would stop playing (and I might end up with a bag of flaming dog poop on my step <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> ) Should I be neutral? Is that the best way? Well even though I craft apprppriate CR encouters for the PCs and don't use knowledge about the players that the villians wouldn't have. I still secretly glory when they have a hard time, and when they are shaking in their boots. I kinda like it when at high level play the voral bastard sword weilding BBEG criticals the party fighter and the rest of the party goes oh &*$#!! This is tha attitude I'm talking about. I'm fair with the group (I work <u>very</u> hard to make sure everything is fair for the group, it's just I really like it when the BBEG kicks their butts. I'm the kind of guy that roots for the villian in movies. I love the Empire strikes back cause luke gets his hand lopped off and Han gets frozen in Carbonite, and I'm like "ha! take that upstarts".</p><p></p><p>So while I'm fair and do the best to keep a poker face, I really want PC destruction. I think that I get to attached to my BBEGs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gundark, post: 3346022, member: 6148"] [b]Maybe I'm not as killer as I thought, after reading some of these replies[/b] Maybe this is the kind of DM I should be. Believe it or not I don't fudge rolls for my benifit, if my BBEG rolls a one to save I play it as rolled. I craft appropriate CR encounters for the PCs. Yeah I know that if I was a totally $%*&@# and threw way overpowering stuff at them they would stop playing (and I might end up with a bag of flaming dog poop on my step :uhoh: ) Should I be neutral? Is that the best way? Well even though I craft apprppriate CR encouters for the PCs and don't use knowledge about the players that the villians wouldn't have. I still secretly glory when they have a hard time, and when they are shaking in their boots. I kinda like it when at high level play the voral bastard sword weilding BBEG criticals the party fighter and the rest of the party goes oh &*$#!! This is tha attitude I'm talking about. I'm fair with the group (I work [U]very[/U] hard to make sure everything is fair for the group, it's just I really like it when the BBEG kicks their butts. I'm the kind of guy that roots for the villian in movies. I love the Empire strikes back cause luke gets his hand lopped off and Han gets frozen in Carbonite, and I'm like "ha! take that upstarts". So while I'm fair and do the best to keep a poker face, I really want PC destruction. I think that I get to attached to my BBEGs. [/QUOTE]
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