I once had 2 groups fighting each other. /u/Queter223 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

I was DMing for 2 groups once. Both groups are Set in the same World (obviosly) time AND EVEN GUILD. They even knew that i had to play once a week with a different group. (It was while playing WoW, so we used WoW classes by(i cant find it right now. But i will update/edit so you know) and we used RaidMarkers inside the Game for enemys and such…)

But it took more and more time to get people to do their Actions, since they were also totaly into the RP Aspect of the Game. So i decided to move it to PURE TEXT (as it TECHNICALLY was already. Since every Thing you did, you just wrote that into /e or /say) over Discord. (This ment, as Soon as it was some ones turn to do stuff, he could just DO it, when ever he felt like it. Some players only answered when while in train/bus getting home or goint to work, but it worked in the LONG run)

This went on for a while, until i had a great idea. Murder-Case. But the investigation let it Look like the other group was it! And both groups framed each other BUT!!! they did NOT KNEW that the other group was/were ACTUALL PLAYERS. So i went always BACK AND FORTH, explaining what the others did/ what traces they left to follow and such. While leaving an technically WAY TO OBVIOS HINT who the Real killer is!!! It then came to both Partys fighting each other. (Obv. I had a Plan B to save Lifes if necessary)

So, it was a 4v5… and both Partys were like “Yo, what, what just happened?” (Since i am usually pretty fair as the way i fight. If it is not a very smart generall, a soldier/monster would just fight, what it Sees next. So no targeting spezific players and such) Also, if Traps where layed out, i would descripe the surroundings a bit more detailed, so it is like “that bookshelf looks very tidy. BUT there are also special carvings” (carvings became something like a Keyword, that it has some hidden mechanism, either just beeing a secret to discover or a trap to Not Step into)

But this time, players explained me how to hide their traps from the other Party. But it was a 2 Steps trap. So they just were locked inside the house with the other Party but then noticed the actuall trap, and disharmed them. They were very alarmed by the door locking behind them and immeditly used detect magic, and manage to disarm the trap, Set by the other players.

Usually i would let NPC (if they are naiv enough) just step into traps, just as planned. But never had i befor just let then Step into a trap just PARTIALLY.

So the ambush began, and both Partys Rolled for Initiative. Tactics used, they’ve never seen befor, and every individuell thinking… they praised me for “how smart this fight was” and “way differently challenging, than other hard Fights!” But also hated me for beeing so “unfair” as how i used spells or the Environment.

Right befor some one would have died, i got the actuall murder Interrupt the scene, fleeing from both Partys, but instead of rewarding both players for acusing each other (still Not knowing both were groups beeing players) i got a group of guards, cast hold person on them (as well as an action to save a PC life!) And get then arrested, for trasspassing and fighting “in public” . After getting arrested, i invited both groups into Discord. As the usuall “D&D Server Event to have fun talking about everything” but also about something bit mote Serios( So every one had to come) and when every one was in voice. I started DMing. They were immeditly hooked and SHOCKED!! Since i explained them every Thing (on the POV of the guards also beeing on that case)

Sh’t hit the Fan.

That was SO peak.

Every one love/hated that! Becouse it was so nerve recking for them.

I was DMing for 2 groups once. Both groups are Set in the same World (obviosly) time AND EVEN GUILD. They even knew that i had to play once a week with a different group. (It was while playing WoW, so we used WoW classes by(i cant find it right now. But i will update/edit so you know) and we used RaidMarkers inside the Game for enemys and such…)

But it took more and more time to get people to do their Actions, since they were also totaly into the RP Aspect of the Game. So i decided to move it to PURE TEXT (as it TECHNICALLY was already. Since every Thing you did, you just wrote that into /e or /say) over Discord. (This ment, as Soon as it was some ones turn to do stuff, he could just DO it, when ever he felt like it. Some players only answered when while in train/bus getting home or goint to work, but it worked in the LONG run)

This went on for a while, until i had a great idea. Murder-Case. But the investigation let it Look like the other group was it! And both groups framed each other BUT!!! they did NOT KNEW that the other group was/were ACTUALL PLAYERS. So i went always BACK AND FORTH, explaining what the others did/ what traces they left to follow and such. While leaving an technically WAY TO OBVIOS HINT who the Real killer is!!! It then came to both Partys fighting each other. (Obv. I had a Plan B to save Lifes if necessary)

So, it was a 4v5… and both Partys were like “Yo, what, what just happened?” (Since i am usually pretty fair as the way i fight. If it is not a very smart generall, a soldier/monster would just fight, what it Sees next. So no targeting spezific players and such) Also, if Traps where layed out, i would descripe the surroundings a bit more detailed, so it is like “that bookshelf looks very tidy. BUT there are also special carvings” (carvings became something like a Keyword, that it has some hidden mechanism, either just beeing a secret to discover or a trap to Not Step into)

But this time, players explained me how to hide their traps from the other Party. But it was a 2 Steps trap. So they just were locked inside the house with the other Party but then noticed the actuall trap, and disharmed them. They were very alarmed by the door locking behind them and immeditly used detect magic, and manage to disarm the trap, Set by the other players.

Usually i would let NPC (if they are naiv enough) just step into traps, just as planned. But never had i befor just let then Step into a trap just PARTIALLY.

So the ambush began, and both Partys Rolled for Initiative. Tactics used, they’ve never seen befor, and every individuell thinking… they praised me for “how smart this fight was” and “way differently challenging, than other hard Fights!” But also hated me for beeing so “unfair” as how i used spells or the Environment.

Right befor some one would have died, i got the actuall murder Interrupt the scene, fleeing from both Partys, but instead of rewarding both players for acusing each other (still Not knowing both were groups beeing players) i got a group of guards, cast hold person on them (as well as an action to save a PC life!) And get then arrested, for trasspassing and fighting “in public” . After getting arrested, i invited both groups into Discord. As the usuall “D&D Server Event to have fun talking about everything” but also about something bit mote Serios( So every one had to come) and when every one was in voice. I started DMing. They were immeditly hooked and SHOCKED!! Since i explained them every Thing (on the POV of the guards also beeing on that case)

Sh’t hit the Fan.

That was SO peak.

Every one love/hated that! Becouse it was so nerve recking for them.