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The only way to keep players from doing something stupid is to Just Keep Talking.
From The Archives:
Object-Oriented Debate
There are two major schools of thought about how you should write software. Here's what they are and why people argue about it.
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.
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
The Middle Ages
Would you have survived in the middle ages?
Stop Asking Me to Play Dark Souls!
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
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…”