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The only way to keep players from doing something stupid is to Just Keep Talking.
From The Archives:
PC Gaming Golden Age
It's not a legend. It was real. There was a time before DLC. Before DRM. Before crappy ports. It was glorious.
Trekrospective
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
Mass Effect Retrospective
A novel-sized analysis of the Mass Effect series that explains where it all went wrong. Spoiler: It was long before the ending.
Bowlercoaster
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
Diablo III Retrospective
We were so upset by the server problems and real money auction that we overlooked just how terrible everything else is.
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…”