Role-Playing Games: Epic plot derailment

[John_DiFool]

@appleciders

Sometimes you’ve got to change your perspective and see this as emergent behavior, and consider that this sort of thing is why we like D&D differently than CRPGs. A couple years ago, a couple of my superhero/villain characters came across a mission critical ally who’d been apparently killed and was being left for dead by the authorities as a message to others who’d resist the government. The players were intended to wait until the authorities left and then recover the apparently-dead ally. Instead, they created a big fat distraction, snatched the ally’s body, and hijacked the armored car, leading to a merry chase across the city. As the DM, I loved it. That was way better than my plan.

With frequent Weekend At Bernie’s references?