What do you do when you want the party to lose but they get stupid lucky and don't
Railroading and how to avoid it
Christopher Perez
Jacob Young
>Not everywhere has an entire orc warband wandering around, and places that do, that shit is big news.
Okay then, let's take the case of the very greentext we're talking about. The necromancer is preparing to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and only the PCs can stop him. Only they're 1st level.
Ryder Edwards
Right, so they go on a quest to start fighting his minions and become stronger in the process so eventually they can overthrow him. At first they're just nobodies, but by the time they start becoming a threat, they are already strong enough to take what he throws at them.
Jeremiah Wood
Stop GMing, go home, and think on what kind of game you were trying to narrate.
Levi Barnes
>What do you do when you want the party to lose but they get stupid lucky and don't
Pretend you wanted them to succeed the whole time.
Michael Richardson
Yes, if you're altering the reality to accommodate the party's power level. But I'm guessing that the GM in the greentext didn't allot enough time for the party to gain like 7 levels before facing the necromancer.
Kevin Thompson
>But I'm guessing that the GM in the greentext didn't allot enough time for the party to gain like 7 levels before facing the necromancer.
They staged a revolution and overthrew a, presumably large, country. That shit doesn't happen overnight, user.
Charles Scott
You're weaseling. You're trying your hardest to think of any excuse so that the party wouldn't be overwhelmed. And if your running a game, that's great. It's what you should be doing. But you're not playing the part of a deist god, who just winds shit up and walks away.
Eli Gray
>My issue is with the folks who it up as a model of good DMing, which it certainly was not
On that, we certainly agree.
I think it was amazing DMing until the fiat-you're-ded at the end.
My issue is with the folks that assert that players ignoring a world-ending lich, while being important and relevant enough to usurp a kingdom, is a perfectly consequence-free choice.
Bentley Ortiz
Nah. Nobody comes out of that story looking particularly good.