Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 28, 2021 16:46:25 GMT -5
There is an article at Hack & Slash titled On the Deadly Difference. Great article and it makes a lot of great points, but I do take issue with this statement:
I beg to differ, there are indeed players who do foolish things. I had one player during the 2010's who even though you would do everything you could to let the player know that this is not going to turn out well and the other players were telling him not to do it and why, would go ahead and do it anyway. When asked why he did it, he responded that such interesting things happened.
He would deliberately do something foolish on purpose because he found it interesting.
The other reason I dispute his statement is that in the course of the article he acknowledges that even after a Good Dungeon Master has done his part the player may still go ahead and do it.
So if a player is determined you have to let them go ahead and do whatever they want to do. Once you have warned them and especially after all the other players have warned them, it is on them.
There are no players who do foolish things. There are only poor Dungeon Masters.
He would deliberately do something foolish on purpose because he found it interesting.
The other reason I dispute his statement is that in the course of the article he acknowledges that even after a Good Dungeon Master has done his part the player may still go ahead and do it.
Good dungeon masters get in the habit of informing players of possible consequences any time they take actions and checking to make sure it is what they intend to do.
