Getting this is the kind of message makes all the prep worth it 🥲

Got this from one of my players after our Curse of Strahd session:

“Hey I wanna let you know that Sunday’s session was absolutely incredible. It was emotional and meaningful and I legit haven’t stopped thinking about it. I literally wrote an ode called Orgal’s Last Stand. Your DMing is world class.”

I don’t think players always realize how much messages like this mean to a DM.

You spend hours prepping things they may never see (most of it not even necessary LOL), worrying about pacing, encounters, music, NPCs, whether the emotional beats are actually going to land - and then every once in a while you get a message like this.

One of the PCs, Orgal, died that session. It was a genuine culmination of his story, and apparently it hit hard enough that one of my players went home and wrote an ode about his journey/final moments 🥲