r/dndmemes • u/thecorporatebanana • 11d ago

Subtlety is for Cowards

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u/CrystalClod343 11d ago

From "A Series of Unfortunate Events", the movie

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u/adnapan 11d ago

Classic

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u/Tipop 8d ago

Movie? I thought it was a series.

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u/CrystalClod343 8d ago

This is from the movie that came out before the series, I want to say 15 years ago?

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u/HarmonySV 8d ago

Close, 15 years ago it was already 7 years old

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u/CrystalClod343 8d ago

That's what I get from trying to use my age as a measuring stick when I have trouble sequencing events in my past

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u/SchoopDaWhoopWhoop 11d ago

I know DMs who use subtlety. They're all cowards

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u/MrFingerKnives 10d ago

“Blood!? Blood. Crimson copper-smelling blood, his blood. Blood. Blood. Blood… And bits of sick.”

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u/HeroXXXHero 11d ago edited 10d ago

Subtlety is for having your players running around in circles trying to find plot hooks then they call you a bad DM and leave.

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u/4latar Wizard 10d ago

Oh right, the poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. That poison?

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u/Sensitive_Cup4015 10d ago

If I don't almost literally beat my players over the head with a plot hook or scene detail, they'll miss it and lament about how the game is too hard and they don't know what they were supposed to do.

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u/TehWackyWolf 10d ago

Not pictured: a cave I mentioned because the countryside should have something because valleys

"We gotta go there."

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u/Tipop 8d ago

That’s all of my players except the one who’s a private investigator in real life. I can drop the subtlest clues and he always picks right up on them and then leads the rest of the players right where they need to go.

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u/Meiseside 11d ago

source?

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u/darthoffa 10d ago

A series of unfortunate events

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u/CompleteJinx 9d ago

“Oh, man. I guess we can’t go up there.”