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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 1641066" data-attributes="member: 8849">Here's my worst screwup... due more to a lack of communication:1) I have really extensive backstory planned out for a campaign... an epic (before there was such a book) campaign, involving the deaths of gods, a sympathetic badguy gone horribly insane, dastardly plots to topple kingdoms, and good old fashioned genocide.  Really probably the best story I've probably ever done.  Therein lie the problem.  The campaign was initially more suited for a novel than a game as most of the story was hinged around me leading the poor players by the noses.  I began to realize this a tad too late and sought to rectify the problem as quickly as possible.  However, in the end, the solution was worse than the 'problem' itself...2) TPK time.  I ended the campaign in a battle that the PC's could not win.  Not only was this a horrible case of railroading, I forgot to do one thing before I enacted this plan.3) I forgot to ask the PC's if they were having any fun.  Sure I assumed that the PC's weren't due to the fact that they often seemed bored, but I never bothered to actually ask.  In the end, the players were more angry because their characters were pitted in a fight that they could neither avoid nor win.</blockquote>