@ars.carminis: use these at your own risk. i'm serious, a player left a campaign over #4. 1. "yes, he's dead. and he was telling the truth." (said right after the party killed an NPC they assumed was lying.) 2. "the antidote worked. she's going to be okay. next session we'll find out what she does with the information." (she was a spy. they didn't know.) 3. "you remember now. you've always remembered. you chose not to." (said to a character who'd been lying to the party for 8 sessions. the player thought it was a plot twist the DM was throwing. it wasn't. the character had actually been doing it.) 4. "the child you saved in session 3 grew up. he joined the cult. he blames you." (session 22. nobody remembered the child. the DM did.) 5. "the spell hit. you watch it work. your party doesn't know yet." (charm person on a party member, from the BBEG, in front of everyone. the player had to RP it for 3 sessions before being caught.) 6. "she forgives you. she's always forgiven you. you never earned it, but she gave it anyway." (this one broke someone.) 7. "make a wisdom save. you're the only one who hears it." (used with hag encounters. the private whisper is worse than any group threat.) the common thread: none of these work without notes. if you don't track what happened in session 3, you can't bring it back in session 22 with full weight. i built loreify for exactly this reason. records, transcribes, pulls every NPC and promise and thread automatically. search "loreify dnd" on google. don't use #4 unless your group is close. #DMDialogue #DungeonsAndDragons #DMTok

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