Originally Posted by
Craft (Cheese)
When my characters finally got sick of his whiny, glory-hogging, big-breasted, soft-fleshed, purple-eyed, incorruptible sexy "warforged" character and decided to attack, his response was "Okay. They kill me. What do they decide to do after I'm dead?"
I was kinda looking forward to the big epic battle (his character was several levels above mine), but I didn't force it. What was the alternative? "No. The story will not continue until we roll out the battle and your character dies fair and square?" This just screamed at me, both then and now, as being a horrid DM-ing tactic, equivalent to making your players read a 400-page, wooden campaign background story and then quizzing them on it to make sure they paid attention to the small details.