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83 questions linked to/from How do I get my PCs to not be a bunch of murderous cretins?
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How can we as players stop being murderhobos? [closed]
My group is the classic example of murderhobos. When we come upon a strange creature, rather than trying to understand what it is, we simply kill it and ask questions once it is dead. Or instead of ...
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My players have a habit of always torturing enemies they capture for information, how can I make our adventure less macabre? [closed]
So I'm running the lost mines of Phandelver as a new DM and we're about 5 sessions in. I've noticed a pattern that seems to repeat itself: the players defeat and capture an evil NPC character that ...
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How to keep the players working together?
I am the GM of a group of 5 players, I know them as I usually play other games with them. Here is the composition of the group:
a Barbarian (B)
a Paladin who worships Tyr (P)
a Rogue (R)
a Cleric who ...
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How to lead newer players to perform less linearly in encounters?
During a turn, a player has so many possible options, movement (e.g. crawl, climb, jump, grapple...), action (e.g. attack, dash, shove, dodge, hide...), bonus action, and reaction. Also to keep in ...
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Managing New Player "Murder Hobos"
I am running a LMoP game for a group of new players, and everyone is having a great time. We are all very new to it all though - it's my first time running a prewritten campaign as a DM, (only had a ...
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How can I meet the needs of players in a party whose characters have opposite alignments?
I am currently DMing a Star Wars D&D campaign.
One character has a backstory that includes 'setting orphans on fire'. Needless to say, he is a murder hobo and a Sith. One of my other characters ...
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Am I being a bad sport or is my DM indeed being unfair? [closed]
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We had a party of me and 2 other players and a DM. My understanding of how the campaign was going to go after talking to the DM and the other players before playing was that there could be ...
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Is there any way to keep a player from killing an NPC?
I was running a one shot for friends and a player had gotten annoyed with an NPC that the other players really liked. This came to a head when after a combat encounter the Player decided to attack the ...
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Is this Murderous Celestial homebrew warlock patron balanced?
I'm hoping to get some feedback in order to keep this warlock subclass in balance - The Murderous Celestial.
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I'm the DM of a 5e D&D game. One of my players' characters is a Neutral-Good ...
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Rules-as-written, does an attempt to tie up a creature affected by the Sleep spell awaken it?
When playing PFS, I used Sleep on a group of thugs and disabled them all. When I declared that I was tying up one of them, our GM told us that the thug awoke and was now trying to fight. This left us ...
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When casting Eldritch Blast with the Agonizing Blast eldritch invocation, what do I add to my damage roll?
This is my first time playing a warlock and I'm still fairly new to tabletop games, so I could use guidance. I know that eldritch blast does 1d10 force damage, and by 17th level, it has four beams ...
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What exactly is a "murder hobo"?
I've been here reading Q&A for some month now, and I already saw some concerning murder-hobos (or sometimes called murderous cretins).
As I'm French, I tried to directly translate it, but it gave ...
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How to deal with a Murder Hobo Paladin?
Our party has a Lawful Neutral Oathbreaker Paladin that has been very much a murder hobo from the beginning. We have been able to keep him in check in most cases but in our recent session he went off ...
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Am I allowed to determine tenets of my contract as a warlock?
A friend of mine invited me to a short campaign. I chose to play as a Hexblade warlock since I thought that it would be interesting to have a sentient weapon as a patron. As part of my character I ...
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How can I handle, or prevent, provocative actions by my players? [duplicate]
I have been DM'ing for a few years, and due to my upbringing I prefer to run games that don't really allow for what I consider to be evil acts in game. For me, that means using basic common sense and ...
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