DM here, I’m running sunless citadel with a 3 completely new players. They found a room with lab looking sub-rooms and thought maybe there would be ingredients for health potions. One of my players (Bard) asked if he could roll to remember a song about health potions and how to make them. I thought this was genius so I told him to roll a history check followed by a performance check. He succeeded both and I ask him to sing the song (which he refused) so I improvised a song about how to make a health potion and narrated a fantasia-esce scene were the ingredients and bottles flew from the different rooms and concocted themselves into three 1d4 healing potions. No problem here.
The problem began when he decided remembering lyrics was the solution to every problem. Puzzles… song about how to solve it, mini boss… song to know they’re greatest weaknesses. You get the gist. Thankfully he’s a really unlucky roller (and also I set really high dcs) but this is getting ridiculous. I loved the creativity the first time and I want to give my players agency and try not to say no to their ideas (core of the game in my opinion) but having a solve my problems song isn’t really creative anymore. It would be a different story if he sang the songs. What should I do?? Has anyone encountered a similar situation??
All help appreciated!!
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r/DnD DM here, I’m running sunless citadel with a 3 completely new players. They found a room with lab looking sub-rooms and thought maybe there would be ingredients for health potions. One of my players (Bard) asked if he could roll to remember a song about health potions and how to make them. I thought this was genius so I told him to roll a history check followed by a performance check. He succeeded both and I ask him to sing the song (which he refused) so I improvised a song about how to make a health potion and narrated a fantasia-esce scene were the ingredients and bottles flew from the different rooms and concocted themselves into three 1d4 healing potions. No problem here. The problem began when he decided remembering lyrics was the solution to every problem. Puzzles… song about how to solve it, mini boss… song to know they’re greatest weaknesses. You get the gist. Thankfully he’s a really unlucky roller (and also I set really high dcs) but this is getting ridiculous. I loved the creativity the first time and I want to give my players agency and try not to say no to their ideas (core of the game in my opinion) but having a solve my problems song isn’t really creative anymore. It would be a different story if he sang the songs. What should I do?? Has anyone encountered a similar situation?? All help appreciated!! submitted by /u/zkaterboiflash [link] [comments]
DM here, I’m running sunless citadel with a 3 completely new players. They found a room with lab looking sub-rooms and thought maybe there would be ingredients for health potions. One of my players (Bard) asked if he could roll to remember a song about health potions and how to make them. I thought this was genius so I told him to roll a history check followed by a performance check. He succeeded both and I ask him to sing the song (which he refused) so I improvised a song about how to make a health potion and narrated a fantasia-esce scene were the ingredients and bottles flew from the different rooms and concocted themselves into three 1d4 healing potions. No problem here.
The problem began when he decided remembering lyrics was the solution to every problem. Puzzles… song about how to solve it, mini boss… song to know they’re greatest weaknesses. You get the gist. Thankfully he’s a really unlucky roller (and also I set really high dcs) but this is getting ridiculous. I loved the creativity the first time and I want to give my players agency and try not to say no to their ideas (core of the game in my opinion) but having a solve my problems song isn’t really creative anymore. It would be a different story if he sang the songs. What should I do?? Has anyone encountered a similar situation??
All help appreciated!!
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