u/Hank_Henry_Hill

From the Article: "Can one player really make that big of a difference?"

"I don't ever think that way," Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said this offseason. "Certainly, whenever you lose any players, it takes away from your football team. When you lose great players, like Micah and Tucker [Kraft] and others, yeah. It's going to change how you play the game. It's going to change how you try to win the game. But that's the thing about the National Football League, is they don't pause. You can't pause."

Well I mean, its great to shower us with platitudes Brian, but we never won a game after that. He always just gives the non-answer. It takes away? Yeah I'd say. It took away your ability to even win a single game.

They totally did pause.

People are banking on our starters coming in strong this season, and they might. But dings happen every week. So I got to wondering, which positions have the best depth right now? Musgrave is a functional piece, and I feel like our safety depth is pretty good.

Which positions are we feeling good about depth-wise?

I've been a player and DM for about 11 years. We are all older player between 45-55. Last night a Mummy Lord had us on the ropes. He had already killed out NPC companion. We escaped up a tunnel using a scroll of arcane gate and tried to use Rope Trick to hide. But the last guy in didn't pull up the rope so the mummy know exactly where we were.

We were in bad shape. We were trying to go over our spells and resources and we didn't come up with much. I proposed that I hold him off while the druid wild shapes into something fast and runs for it with the warlock using my boots of speed to follow him at full pace. I was looking forward to going down heroically to save my comrades. Or at least fighting for 2 rounds and then trying to escape myself. The problem was existential to our characters. And it was super fun.

Then DM just has the mummy lord laugh at us and walk away. He placed a spirit guardian at the doorway to his lair (Not underneath out rope). And just let us leave go for no apparent reason.

It was so anticlimactic. It just took the wind right out of my sails. Why raise the stakes to that level and just let the players walk away to (presumably) take a long rest? Just finish the scene. What are the stakes even for if you are just going to handwave the results of poor strategy and execution?

Anyway if you are a DM and your players are in a bad way, just follow through. Don't underestimate them and don't rob them of opportunities for bravery.