53 minutes ago, whafrog said:Really? That's heavy-handed? Pretty much anything goes in my games (though thankfully I have a pretty mature group of players, so I don't have to deal with murder hobos and the like), is it too much to ask for a cinematic moment on occasion?
If by "cinematic moment" you mean "I know that there's no reason for your characters to let things happen the way I want them to happen, but they'll happen anyway" ... yeah, that might be too much. As a GM, I can control the entire world except for three to six people. If I want something to happen, I can make it happen without intruding on the control of those few.
Like everything at the table, this can be negotiated, of course. If your players are happy with it, more power to you!