My players are constantly trying to do combat in this campaign and I’m not sure how to work with it
I’be been playing with my group for a little over a year but our DM recently asked me to take over since his work load has increased at his job. This is my first full campaign (I did a homebrew once shot a while back) and I’m having trouble going through the story while trying to make my players happy.
Now, my players are very combat happy. They will fight anything and everything. I told them before the campaign started that this book that it wasn’t combat heavy and all interactions can be resolved without combat.
I recently had an interaction with one of my players where he is trying to fight the bugbear. We did a bit of combat but both he and I missed each other. We ended up finishing the session up in the middle of the fight and were picking it back up tonight.
A couple of other players are irritated about this interaction and I’m not really sure what to do.
- I know they need to interact with the bugbear and he can’t be killed so I’m not sure how to end the combat
- I’m not sure how to keep the other players engaged while I’m finishing this combat.
Any help or advice would be great!