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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Virel" data-source="post: 5665466" data-attributes="member: 24633">Very very true...have seen a DM protecting his bad guys detected by players almost destroy a game. That's something that really irritates me as a player when DM's do that.Once we had a DM with three pet NPC bad guy spellcasters who were gloating over razing a village. They were watching the people burn to a crisp. We were all supposed to be in awe of their power when a PC fighter blindsided them by leaping into their mist with a move that shocked the DM and players alike. This was a 1st ed AD&D game and the fully weapons specialized fighter managed to inflict enough damge on all three to kill them even if their their hit points were perfect based on the level of spells they had cast etc. Suddenly, all three got a massive hit point boostes, and psionic's and extra magic items like gasous form potions they were allowed to drink while being hacked down that allowed them all to escape. Stoneskin wasn't in use as it was a PHB, DMG, MM type of game. Players were irrate that they had been cheated but the DM insisted and stayed the course, forcing the plot line as he envisioned it which turned out to be from a book he'd read.To this day that DM's credibility is always suspect with every player that was at the session mentioned above. The issue has been discussed with him, if the players get lucky they get lucky...it's what the other DM's allow when it happens. He's had PC's get lucky and wreck stuff for other DM's but he will not allow his NPC's to suffer that sort of fate. He's not as blantant as before just sneakier with doing that sort of thing.</blockquote>

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