My players don’t seem to uncomfortable with the notion of one character torturing another (nearly) to death, so I think it’s going to turn out okay. It’s a dark campaign, but this is a bit farther than it’s gone before. As long as no one starts thinking, “These guys are a bunch of sadistic freaks – I want out of this group” it should be all right.

Well, last session, he did just that. As it turned out, the goblins had prisoners. He asked, in a secret note, what to do with them. He thought he was asking Torog in prayer. I thought he was asking the goblin hexer in goblin. I wrote back, “A sacrifice would be appropriate,” since that sort of thing would be on the goblin’s mind. He thought he had received a divine order from his god, and now he’s all set to sacrifice the fighter if the rest of the party can’t bring him an alternate victim in time. I didn’t understand why he was arguing so vehemently in favor of the sacrifice until after the session, when I realized the mix-up. The party went from “Hurrah, we’ve defeated the goblins,” to “Uh-oh, we’re all suspicious of each other and someone might die painfully” because one miscommunication.

Telas is f’in A right. Don’t do it!

I might do a rollback for minor things. Did the group forget to buy torches when they where going through their extensive pre-dungeon shopping spree? Would they have logically known there might be a lack of light deep underground? Alright, you bought torches, lets not dwell on it.

Of course, it’s also fun to watch them roleplay the trip back to town, smacking the guy who was supposed to get the torches, only to find unlit torches in the loot of an adventurer one room beyond where they stopped to turn around . . .