TRW Strips #129 (Patreon)

In DnD, as in life, you can never predict how people are going to act. The last pages of this story are an homage to every game master who had their well-laid plans dashed because the players behaved unexpectedly. It could be that your players take everything deadly serious until your story needs them to and then they inexplicably start dicking around or, as in this case, a bunch of selfish screwups suddenly become a well-oiled combat machine only in the precise moment that doing so would fuck up your plans.

I only ran a couple of small campaigns myself with very small parties in my time, so I don't really have any stories of my own grand schemes being foiled to share. But it did happen occasionally when I was a player. Our exasperated game master would just have to throw up his hands and say something like "Look, you just fucking can't go in there, okay!?"

If you've got any stories of your own I'd love to hear them. Meanwhile this TRW adventure is nearly complete!