Jan 29, 2021
all of us all week: oh god they’re gonna fight the tomb takers
ashley, the absolute madman: SIKE! [rolls a dragon]
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all of us all week: oh god they’re gonna fight the tomb takers
ashley, the absolute madman: SIKE! [rolls a dragon]
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Although I know it’s not gonna happen, I realllllly want Essek to pull a hail Mary and come HELP these idiots. How amazing would that be though? I, personally, have been waiting for Essek to show up and him helping them survive would be an INCREDIBLE way to bring back that crazy son of a gun.
the fact that there isn’t even a map!! MATT DIDN’T EXPECT THIS. WHICH IS THE SCARIEST PART OF THE WHOLE THING
if i had a nickel for every time an enemy vored beau, grabbed beau and ran off with her, or vored and ran off with her.........
IF SOMEONE DIES WHILE SAM HAS A MOUSTACHE I SWEAR TO G O D
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i am getting MAD glory run road flashbacks.........in ep26 matt let the combat start bc he expected it to be very quick, bc he didn’t think the m9 would engage as hard as they did, bc the iron shepherds were meant to be obviously way over-levelled for the party
if he expected this fight now to go long, or possibly even for there to be a fight, he would end the episode here
but he’s not. which is. not a great sign
I’ve dmed on and off for a decade and like to think I’m quite capable and I’m... I’m genuinely disappointed in Matt this episode. I just can’t find enjoyment in sadistic DMing and refusal to scale counters back when you realize you’ve fucked up with the balancing. This isn’t fun to watch anymore. Like I know every table plays differently but I’m just... deeply frowning at my screen.
idk man i really don’t agree with you here
i don’t think this is an example of ‘sadistic DM’ing’. i don’t think matt has ever been a sadistic dm. i think he has sometimes misjudged how something will play out -- i definitely think there could have been more hints that the iron shepherds were Bad News Bears, for example, but everyone misjudges how ur players are gonna take something, & for all we know there were heaps of potential hints in there that the table never dug up or didn’t listen to or whatever
i genuinely don’t think matt intended for this to be an encounter. there wasn’t a map. if he’d been expecting an initiative roll, he would’ve saved it for the next episode. this caught him by surprise, the same way that the glory run road did, the same way that them chasing avantika did. and when a dm is surprised, things get funky
there were so many branching paths this episode. otis could’ve rolled poorly on their sleight of hand to steal the bag of holding. fjord could’ve checked to see he still had it. they could’ve discovered it was missing earlier. they could’ve not gone after the tomb takers. they could’ve rested first. they could’ve just tailed them. they could’ve gone on ahead and set up an ambush. they could’ve waited for a message to get to essek. they could’ve called him to them
it doesn’t make matt a ‘sadistic dm’ that he didn’t intend for the m9 to run headlong into danger, exhausted and without major spell slots, and then get surprised pikachu when this group that has been proven to be INCREDIBLY powerful, that oneshot vess derogna, and that’s been using magic cancelling abilities on them since day one, turned out to be just as fuckin powerful as we ALL KNEW they were
that’s not sadistic dm’ing. and a big part of matt’s dm style is that he’s unfailingly fair as a dm. the table knows that he’ll throw challenges at them, but also that their victories are entirely earned. he doesn’t soften encounters for them, bc that would cheapen their victories. and not everyone dm’s this way -- god knows i don’t -- but this is the way this table does it. it works for them. it’s worked for them for years. they like it this way. and it makes for incredibly compelling stories -- we’re here watching it, after all. so i don’t think we observers have any right to judge it as sadistic or unfair or wrong when it’s clearly what works for them, and for the kind of story they’re telling
still absolutely reeling from the fact that not only did no one die, but no one even went unconscious