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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7021069" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, sure, if you only 'code for the happy path', great.What I think is more likely is going to be something like:Player #1: "I swing my sword at the swarm on Bralee."DM (ruling on the fly): "You're pretty sure a weapon attack of any kind won't do anything to it."Player #1: Wait, what??  DM: Yeah, I decided it would be ridiculous for your weapon to effect the spider swarm because it's pretty silly if you think about it for you to be able to use a Morningstar to smash 10's of thousands of tiny spiders.Player #2: Well, that's pretty important... I would have never even walked into this room if I thought spiders were immune to weapon damage.Player #1: That's right.  I want to retcon back to when we opened the door.  If I had known ordinary spiders were so dangerous, I would have thrown a vial of flaming oil into the room as soon as I saw all the cobwebs.Player #3: Does this mean I didn''t take damage?  And can I have my spell back?I mean seriously, whenever I have to retconn anything at all, I figure it means I've screwed up big time.   As far as stunting to wash the spiders off, I'm totally on board with players ad hocing stunts, and in general have a similar methodology.  But retconns are like one of the biggest headaches a DM ever faces.</blockquote>