My players hated my latest session. I didn't explain the mechanics of the boss to them and just implied them, hoping they'd feel smart when they figured it out themselves.
Boss seems invincible. "Oh no," shouts the boss's caretaker, "Don't let them break your mirror! It can only protect you if you protect it!" Players ignore this and keep whaling on the boss, not making called shots (which I asked them about whenever they made an attack and didn't penalize them for previously) against the literally glowing weak points. I literally have to very directly tell them that their characters notice weak points in the monster. They still didn't attack them, except for one who broke the aforementioned mirror
Boss uses its ultimate, one-time-use move, which is casting Synaptic Static (which deals the same amount of damage as Fireball) centered on itself. All players, even the ones not affected, were upset, and one chewed me out for minutes on end about how I was being unfair.
I admit I was being unfair, but it wasn't for the sake of beating up on the players. I thought it would be fun to set them up with a tough fight like I often do, but evidently changing up the mechanics made it too hard. While I am frustrated, I will learn from this mistake.
Hopefully.
Damn, I feel you, I’ve gone out of my way for a person, they wanted their backstory to give them two special guns, I allowed it. Next they was a Warforged which doesn’t really fit with the campaign theme but I allowed it. Then he started complaining when I said he takes 1d4 bleeding damage like everybody else for some realism and when he tried replicate magic item on a fake he got mad and said I can’t keep nullifying his abilities even though it was a fake.
My players hated my latest session. I didn't explain the mechanics of the boss to them and just implied them, hoping they'd feel smart when they figured it out themselves.
Boss seems invincible. "Oh no," shouts the boss's caretaker, "Don't let them break your mirror! It can only protect you if you protect it!" Players ignore this and keep whaling on the boss, not making called shots (which I asked them about whenever they made an attack and didn't penalize them for previously) against the literally glowing weak points. I literally have to very directly tell them that their characters notice weak points in the monster. They still didn't attack them, except for one who broke the aforementioned mirror
Boss uses its ultimate, one-time-use move, which is casting Synaptic Static (which deals the same amount of damage as Fireball) centered on itself. All players, even the ones not affected, were upset, and one chewed me out for minutes on end about how I was being unfair.
I admit I was being unfair, but it wasn't for the sake of beating up on the players. I thought it would be fun to set them up with a tough fight like I often do, but evidently changing up the mechanics made it too hard. While I am frustrated, I will learn from this mistake.
Hopefully.
Damn, I feel you, I’ve gone out of my way for a person, they wanted their backstory to give them two special guns, I allowed it. Next they was a Warforged which doesn’t really fit with the campaign theme but I allowed it. Then he started complaining when I said he takes 1d4 bleeding damage like everybody else for some realism and when he tried replicate magic item on a fake he got mad and said I can’t keep nullifying his abilities even though it was a fake.
These are the kind of situations I dread dealing with as a DM. :(
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Damn, I feel you, I’ve gone out of my way for a person, they wanted their backstory to give them two special guns, I allowed it. Next they was a Warforged which doesn’t really fit with the campaign theme but I allowed it. Then he started complaining when I said he takes 1d4 bleeding damage like everybody else for some realism and when he tried replicate magic item on a fake he got mad and said I can’t keep nullifying his abilities even though it was a fake.
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These are the kind of situations I dread dealing with as a DM. :(
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Wowzers thats some sick stuff, I'll check everything else out and follow ya
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Morning!
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
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Edit: I FINALLY FOUND A WAY TO PUT SPOILERS IH A POST IN PORTRAIT MODE!!!
Copy paste a text only spoiler while quoting something and then you can do whatever with it
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Awesome!
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
:D
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:)
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Nobody’s online :(
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I’m on :3
i might have to go in a bit though
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Hoi! How de do de?
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Hoi!
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How are you?
(btw I don’t think anyone has realised that when I say how de do de it means how are you, lol)
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Pretty good, you?
(I had a feeling that that was what that meant but if it didn’t I didn’t want to look stupid >^<)
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Also good
(lol)
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Are you in the mood for UC? I have an idea for a character that I might intro :3
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YES I LOVE UC
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Nice. I haven’t posted there before put I’ve read the rules a couple times.
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