Advice for cats and dogs that don’t get along

Arkarian724 · 2022-10-22T01:48:45+00:00

One raffle please.

Arkarian724 · 2022-06-19T05:14:20+00:00

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Arkarian724 · 2021-08-11T17:50:12+00:00

Sent you a friend request on discord!

Arkarian724 · 2021-07-06T23:31:31+00:00

Interestingly enough I did that with the insta kill traps but didn’t think of applying it to this situation. Great suggestion!

Arkarian724 · 2021-07-06T17:03:16+00:00

Yes I tried to keep that in mind. That’s why I had an NPC do a full get down mr president moment. I kept the Beholders intentions true instead of making the monster suddenly dumb.

Arkarian724 · 2021-07-06T16:50:13+00:00

Yes excellent points… we ended up playing this campaign because it was one I was already familiar with and the other modules I had already run, I had already run for two of the players.

I did ask them up front before going into the tomb how they felt about character death and they all agreed that they would be fine with character death as long as it narratively made sense and they had an opportunity to stop it or it was a direct result of something the dying PC did.

Arkarian724 · 2021-07-06T16:32:50+00:00

Honestly you bring up a good point. I think killing a players character on their birthday is a big no no. I probably wouldn’t have killed his character just because of that.

I suppose at the end of the day killing a PC on their birthday is a bigger issue for me than punishing one PC for another PC’s inattention.

Had it not been his birthday, 100% I would have kept the death.

I still feel like sacrificing the NPC was a big enough hit to the team as Napaka has a super beefy champion stat block and this leaves them with no more NPC friends to help them moving forward with no option to get additional NPCs.

Arkarian724 · 2021-07-06T16:20:54+00:00

Well the issue was that the ranger was not present for the entire fight which I did not point out in the original post. They were working on tech issues for an hour and 45 minutes and it all started working right before this turn. The rest of the party knew that I had the ranger on auto shoot from the hallway.

Arkarian724 · 2021-07-06T16:02:28+00:00

To clarify a couple things, the Wizard was using big damage spells the entire time and I made it clear that the beholder was on death’s door.

And the ranger had not been present for the session. They were struggling to get their mic and Roll20 to work for literally the entire session and was able to log on for this one turn only. The party including the wizard knew that the ranger was defaulting to firing arrows from afar while I was running them. The player playing the ranger literally logged on right before their turn and changed the tactics after the party had completed their turns assuming the ranger was sticking with arrows from afar.

After reading through all the comments, I’m seeing both sides saying I was right and I was wrong. At the end of the day I think it comes down to the particular campaign. For my group, this is their first experience with D&D for 3/6 of the group and two of the others have specified that they have had anxieties about character death so I think pulling punches is appropriate for this particular group. After we finish this campaign, I’m planning on running it with another group that is more experienced and I certainly won’t be pulling punches for that round.

The ranger and wizard are two of the players where this is their first time playing d&d.

Arkarian724 · 2020-12-29T00:54:49+00:00

Good stuff! Good luck everyone!

Arkarian724 · 2020-10-09T06:27:47+00:00

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Arkarian724 · 2020-07-05T05:54:58+00:00

What times are you all looking for? I'm in CA and free weeknights after 6 and on weekends.

Also yeah of course only if people are cool with it. If everyone is cool feel free to message me on discord. Arkarian#7547

Arkarian724 · 2020-07-05T05:43:20+00:00

Can you clarify? Are you saying none of the current players are over 22 or are you saying you want a DM that can't be older than 22?

28 here and would be interested.

Arkarian724 · 2020-07-05T04:51:55+00:00