Memorable moments from D&D since the beginning.

[alliancesjr]

One of the earlier sessions for this game had my players, after successfully routing out an inept necromancer from the city sewers, raid some houses. The one house they were after was the chief of police for the one of the city's prominent districts (the leader of the party, a CG Fighter, is a recently former police officer under that same chief), who was revealed to be corrupt and working for some shadow corporation. The corrupt chief had confiscated evidence from the inept necromancer, and brought it to his house, which is why my party, in their infinite wisdom, decided to burglarize it.

And other houses next to it.

In broad daylight.

With one of the houses still having children inside.

I allowed it, though with strong recommendations against doing so, because I was, frankly, laughing my ass off the entire time. It probably didn't hurt that there were a couple Natural Ones rolled during the course of the burglary. I'll share with you some highlights of that session (accompanied by my favorite LJ icon, which is REALLY appropriate for this specific post).

• The second fighter decided to charge the front door of one of the houses, to break it down. Having rolled a 1, she didn't notice until it was too late that the door was ajar, and she barrelled straight through the OPEN door. She went on to roll a 3 on her Reflex check to keep from crashing into the wall beyond it.



• The cleric, upon finding two children home sick from school, attempted to use Diplomacy to keep them quiet. Unfortunately, she just made them cry harder.



• The sorcerer, upon finding the confiscated artifact in a glass case on the mantle, threw a vase at it to break it open. The vase proceeded to bounce off the glass case and strike the sorcerer on the head.

Do I count as a sadistic DM if I find pleasure when they bring things upon themselves, instead of the stereotypical sadistic DM that just throws obstacles upon obstacles on them?

Comments

[westonian.livejournal.com]

Sadistic isn't the word I would use. Maybe "amused" or "content".

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely amused. Greatly so, in fact.

[barronblack.livejournal.com]

It's a righteous kind of smug sadism. That way, they can't blame you, and you can laugh as they roll another 1. XD

[evilweevil04.livejournal.com]

That was a sad sad day.

[jcrow.livejournal.com]

I still can't believe I got a 3 on my reflex. T_T

[saint-kyra.livejournal.com]

God, that was funny.

Ahahahaha~

[icysnowgirl.livejournal.com]

homg. Those were great. We need more posts like this. :]

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of a RPG inspiration picture I saw once: The picture was of a penguin with cymbals standing on sleeping a polar bear, flippers wide and ready to bang them together.

The caption reads "Fearless: sometimes you have to let the DM know that you ain't scared of nothing."