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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 913500" data-attributes="member: 9410">Too much power, Tim!If my PC wore heavy armor, based on the information presented, he would have stayed to don armor.  Why?  Because he is a wimp who uses armor as a security blanket?Nope.  Because he is little better than a Fighter, with the eldritch power of a wet doilie, and now no armor class, up against an unspecified number of level-draining vampires (of unknown levels, classes, and power) who can (apparently) kill one hundred people in under four minutes!  Regardless of my good alignment, I cannot see adding my name to the "menu" as being conducive to the greater godd... neither their, nor mine.  There would be nothing *I* could do in such a situation (or very little) without my armor, so I would stay to put it on.Non-metagaming, if an explosion woke my 10th level PC, I would go to check it out (magic items are found or made, in our campaigns, not bought, and my PC only has +2 Studded Leather, so I wouldn't need to dress, I'd be sleeping/standing watch in it).  Once I saw what was going on, however, I would not stay to fight, I think...No number nor level of vampires is given, but my one Speak with Animals/day isn't going to help, and I doubt non-magical archery would, either.  There would be little or nothing I could do, with or without my armor.Not heroic, no, but neither is going into a combat that I can't do anything but melee in, when it's a situation where my stealth won't help and my low AC will get me level-drained.In any case, I don't know what the player did that was "abuse", but he was probably frustrated, and certainly didn't have fun.  If he was abusive, there's no excuse for it, but some anger and frustration is understandable.  The "wasting his valuable time" quote makes me think that he might have had other things to do that night, and sacrificed something else to make your game, then sat out the encounter putting on armor, and wound up doing nothing but getting frustrated...In any case, I don't necessarily think that makes you a bad GM.  How many Vamps, and what level were the PCs facing?  They might all be first level, for all I know.  Too many details missing, here...  Were PCs awake and on watch?  How did the fight go WITHOUT the three PCs?  Too many unknowns.In any case, IF my PC was 10-12th level, AND wore heavy armor, I would have stayed to don it, too.  From the description, it was a pretty hopeless situation, for my PC.</blockquote>

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