• DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile…

    Me: You guys find a key woth a triangle on it

    Later that session

    Me: There is a locked door with a triangle on it.

    Party: This door is literally impossible to open.

    Me: …why don’t you check your inventory…

    Party: Aha, maybe this tomato we found can open the door if we shove it into the lock.

    Me: I don’t… you have a key!

    Party: When did we get a key?

    Me: THIS SESSION!

    Party: Ohhh we didn’t write it down.

    Me: IT’S ONLY BEEN 5 MINUTES! GOLDFISH, ALL OF YOU!

        • sammytheman666@ttrpg.networkOP
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          Yup. For one spell once per day. To relativise, they are level 14 now. So it’s not like they didn’t had access to 15 different game breaking options. But I was sure that the character would die… for like 1 session before one of the 5 ways of bringing someone back to life would be used.

          It is hard to make a decent challenge for high leveled players. If I can make them nervous, even if they win easily I call it a DMing win. And I certainly managed that last night so I’m fine with it.

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      1 year ago

      Seconded. Did it bring them back? Some kind of counterspell? Teleported them to the Astral plane?

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    These sorts of Uno Reverse Card moments are both frustrating and gratifying to me as a DM. I of course try to roll with them, but occasionally they do mean I need to toss out half my mental notes for the rest of the campaign and seat-of-my-pants a whole new plot branch right in the moment.

    There was one campaign I was in, I’d estimate it lasted about five years of real time, where my character stabbed the final Big Bad of the campaign with a weapon that we had picked up in the very first adventure of the campaign. We’d been toting it around ever since then without using it because it seemed like a very special purpose item. It wasn’t pivotal to defeating her but it was still fun to tie the campaign together like that.