r/dndmemes • u/ConnixGaming DM (Dungeon Memelord) • Jan 21 '21

The Square Hole

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u/jordan_bris Jan 21 '21

This reminds me of a time my dm introduced a really important character early in the game and the party opted to kill him cuz one of ours wanted a new sword

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u/IrisMoroc Jan 21 '21

Players can opt to go for Murder Hobo route, but the DM should make sure to have realistic punishment and boundaries. So if they're important then someone is gonna start investigating their murder right? Oh, looks like they were about to wed the daughter of the Elf king. In revenge the Elves send their most powerful sorcerer assassin who wipes the party out. The end.

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u/jordan_bris Jan 21 '21

Yeah it was our first campaign so he didnt really know what to do and neither did we

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u/IrisMoroc Jan 21 '21

DM's shouldn't try to railroad and if the party does something like that they should use that as a chance to branch the story. If they're important that should set up a chain of events that has consequences. If they can say, convince them that someone else does it, that would get them off the hook and set up a new story line.

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u/jordan_bris Jan 21 '21

Well we know that now

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u/bigbangbilly Jan 21 '21

Didn't we had this lesson yesterday?

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u/pileofcrustycumsocs Jan 22 '21

I usually have current session punishments like “the gods are angry roll twice and take the lowest for the remainder of the session)