T w e n t y S i d e d
The only way to keep players from doing something stupid is to Just Keep Talking.
From The Archives:
Resident Evil 4
Who is this imbecile and why is he wandering around Europe unsupervised?
Please Help I Can’t Stop Playing Cities: Skylines
What makes this borderline indie title so much better than the AAA juggernauts that came before?
DM of the Rings
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Stop Asking Me to Play Dark Souls!
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
Games and the Fear of Death
Why killing you might be the least scary thing a game can do.
The DM is learning the hard way why your campaign’s bad guy should have a phylactery, or a projection amulet, or some other way to taunt the heroes out of murder range.
But seriously, the DM is being unreasonable here. You can’t tell your players “This is the guy who created all your problems, and also the only tool at your disposal is violence” and then expect them to politely listen to his nonsense monologue. Even within the role they’re playing, they would want to kill the enemy general after his army was defeated, not politely let him rally so he can throw more disposable waves of minions later on.
Nice job stitching together than panorama shot at the end there! Both here and in the original.
I choose to believe that this is a subtle joke about the fact that Saruman’s arc gets wildly short circuited in the movies compared to the books. Like the book DM had all these big plans and the movie PCs just said nah
I think that’s right. The DM’s plan is the books, but the game as it plays out is the movies.
Not entirely, though, since in this version the PCs also killed Gollum.
“It has a range of 240 feet. It doesn’t specify direction…”