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<blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1640853" data-attributes="member: 16936"><p>Oh, I <em>like</em> your players. Not only did they catch a mistake and exploit it perfectly, but they knew the best way to celebrate it and make you eat your liver for the rest of the session.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't say that ruined a whole campaign at all; it just sidestepped the big climactic fight you were counting on, which is a bummer for you but has absolutely nothing to do with how memorable or fun the entire campaign is for the players. I'd imagine that quite a few of them have fond memories of the time they kicked that white dragon's butt before it had time to blink, and how all the NPCs they met were properly impressed by it all.</p><p></p><p>So by all means, feel a little bit of regret that you didn't get to romp over them with the full powers of a white dragon, but don't think for a second you ruined everything by doing it. Did they have fun? Will they remember this game as one of the good ones? Those are the only two really important questions, and since it looks like the answer to both is "yes," you're a success. That should offset whatever angst you feel over not whipping them soundly with a dragon.</p><p></p><p>Besides, NEXT time you won't forget to allow for Harm+Haste when planning the big fight, and they'll be impressed that you got wise to that trick. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>--</p><p>and they may regret forcing you to play adoring barmaids all night</p><p>ryan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herpes Cineplex, post: 1640853, member: 16936"] Oh, I [i]like[/i] your players. Not only did they catch a mistake and exploit it perfectly, but they knew the best way to celebrate it and make you eat your liver for the rest of the session. I wouldn't say that ruined a whole campaign at all; it just sidestepped the big climactic fight you were counting on, which is a bummer for you but has absolutely nothing to do with how memorable or fun the entire campaign is for the players. I'd imagine that quite a few of them have fond memories of the time they kicked that white dragon's butt before it had time to blink, and how all the NPCs they met were properly impressed by it all. So by all means, feel a little bit of regret that you didn't get to romp over them with the full powers of a white dragon, but don't think for a second you ruined everything by doing it. Did they have fun? Will they remember this game as one of the good ones? Those are the only two really important questions, and since it looks like the answer to both is "yes," you're a success. That should offset whatever angst you feel over not whipping them soundly with a dragon. Besides, NEXT time you won't forget to allow for Harm+Haste when planning the big fight, and they'll be impressed that you got wise to that trick. ;) -- and they may regret forcing you to play adoring barmaids all night ryan [/QUOTE]
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