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<blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 911344" data-attributes="member: 93">Hmm, I'm in the club too, so I'll try and answer - and like Joshua Randall points out, just killing the PC's isn't really the point.&nbsp; It's killing them and making them love every second of it that's the point...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But seriously, the Rat Bastard DM's Club definition of rat-bastardry is to put the PC's into situations that are immensely challenging and difficult, oftentimes with no clear solution, and do it in such a way that it is a rewarding gaming experience for all involved.&nbsp; It's easy to screw the PC's, but giving them tough choices that take the game to a higher level is much more difficult.&nbsp; A sort of &quot;Kobiyashi Maru&quot; test, if you will.&nbsp; And if the PC's pull off a Captain Kirk-like solution that confounds the DM, all the better!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kid Charlemagne, post: 911344, member: 93"] Hmm, I'm in the club too, so I'll try and answer - and like Joshua Randall points out, just killing the PC's isn't really the point. It's killing them and making them love every second of it that's the point... :) But seriously, the Rat Bastard DM's Club definition of rat-bastardry is to put the PC's into situations that are immensely challenging and difficult, oftentimes with no clear solution, and do it in such a way that it is a rewarding gaming experience for all involved. It's easy to screw the PC's, but giving them tough choices that take the game to a higher level is much more difficult. A sort of "Kobiyashi Maru" test, if you will. And if the PC's pull off a Captain Kirk-like solution that confounds the DM, all the better! [/QUOTE]

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