NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Weiley31" data-source="post: 8547557" data-attributes="member: 7017196">-If you have Cutscenes, Bosses, and your ENTIRE tenure in the hobby, especially if you're a DM, isn't completely emergent play, then you are doing a terrible job as a DM/or is the bad wrong fun way to play DND. Go play a video game you railroading sad sack.-If you're a DM and you get butt hurt over a PC/and its features somehow ruining your encounter or something, it is your obligation to either neuter/completely hobble said PC. Such as making sure that the Sorcerer/Fire Focused PC learns the error of their ways if they decide to partake Descent into Avernus and that as a DM, your duty is to make sure they pretty much toss rocks without any sort of "something" to ensure that a PC isn't completely useless whatsoever unless you toss them a bone by forcing them to reroll an entirely new character. Don't even let that PC, or other PCs in the party, ever have *one or two moments where their class/features/whatnot can no-sell something because you don't want them to have said moments to shine in.-Having an Animal Companion is capable of overshadowing the party and having it fight alongside you in battle, ala He-Man/Battle Cat, The Beast Master/his animals, Timmy/Lassie beating up Mountain Lions, Abysswalker Artorias(or Chosen Undead)/Great Wolf Sif, and various other examples of the trope, is another form of bad/wrong/fun. Said Animal Companion should also be a useless sad sack. Why you sending em into battle noob alongside your PC? It's not like you are playing a Beast Master type character because that's the image you like/want for your character/class that has an Animal Companion.</blockquote>

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