Am I just really thick, or is Gobwin Knob evil?

[Erk]

Have any of you DM'd before? Do you know how frustrating it is to have specific players try to thwart your best laid plans over and over? So Parson is in charge of the evil city, that's what DM's are in charge of 99% of the time. Maybe for once the DM gets to take it to the goodie goodies.

/rant
hates the 'wizard' players that have the damn monster manual memorized...
Him: "Its a Bodak, don't look at it"
Me: "...your character doesn't know that without a knowledge check...roll"
Him: "i'm a powergamer and don't have knowledge skills"
Me: "looks like you'll need to be making that fortitude save then"
/end rant

For the first, your players clearly have more critical thinking skills than mine, or your plots are more straightforward. I usually need a mary-sue just to keep my players from killing themselves. Wanting to thwart them is not the problem, wanting to keep them from thwarting themselves is. (cringes at a team of four level 2 characters peeing on a sleeping owlbear)

For the second, just don't use the default MM skills and powers. Twist them around slightly to mess with your players. If you get the hang of it and do it as a standard fare system, they will stop assuming they know the monsters you throw at them just because they look like ones from the manual.

Anyway, it seems totally out of character for Parson to describe Stanley's forces as "unspeakable". It seems far more likely that the Cute and Plush would be unspeakable forces. Besides, how interesting is a campaign of 24:1 odds in the players' favour for a team of experienced gamers?