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blujayonthewing · 5 years ago

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lostsometime

thinking about the time our cleric outright stole...

how… do you dm… if you don’t like conflict?? like, even fake pretendy conflict? that is… the game?

GOOD QUESTION, YEAH. one time we were doing a side quest with this crystal golem who was like ‘I have guarded this cave since the dawn of time to prevent the evil spirits trapped in these crystals from escaping’ and then at the end our bard was like ‘hey I’m gonna break one of these crystals, I think I see a gem underneath one’ and while we were arguing about it this crystal golem was just like ‘idk do what you want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯’ and then evil spirits did, in fact, escape and she still didn’t do anything gkjfhkjgdgf

all the npcs are like this all the time

#lostsometime #they'll roll over on ANYTHING it drives me NUTS #I think he's misunderstood the difference between 'don't tell your players no' and 'don't have any npcs argue or have their own opinions'#elyss and belial both have personalities and lives and behaviors shaped by how people have treated us for looking Weird and Scary #and the dissonance between the way we act from how we expect to be treated and the way absolutely none of the NPCs treat us is stark #it's frustrating! to say the least!#obviously you don't want characters to be pointlessly combative all the time but a LITTLE conflict is INTERESTING #that's like......... the whole thing..........#about me #irl frens

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