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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 920496" data-attributes="member: 11397">?Originally posted by Numion"You're screwing your players because you enforce realism in the armor dressing to the point, but let your NPC react with unrealistic speed to the same situation."I don't believe he was having his NPC react with unrealistic speed: Originally posted by Fusangite"Time to fly to the ducal palace while hasted: 2 rounds (it was 120 yards away)*snip*Time to say "The vampires are attacking the now and killing the city guard. Can you help us?": 1 round (I just timed myself saying these words -- it took 4 seconds)Time for the duke to cast Haste and Fly: 1 roundTime to fly back to the combat from inside the palace: 3 roundsGiven that the city had just held a public meeting called by the duke, a mere 5 hours before about the vampire threat and stationed an extra 80 troops on the earthwork walls around the tower because of what they perceived to be an impending disaster, it was not difficult to explain to the duke either that this event was happening nor the urgency of responding to said event."It seems to me that the Duke, having just discussed the potential vampire attack at the council would likely be awake. After all, vampires pretty much have to attack at night (unless they take some heavy measures to do so in the daytime), so he really could have been anticipating getting word of the attack, thus he was ready to go with little notice. Since the battle wasn't far away, he would have likely heard the explosion too. When the PC came in and gave his warning I would expect it would have been little surprise to the Duke, who then hasted himself up and flew to the battleground. Not only is this within the rules but I don't see how it is a bad encounter. The PCs had reason to believe an attack would take place, and some of them seemed to be uninterested in preparing for that (as far as their armour was concerned). Even after the attack begun, it seems they wouldn't have been in over their heads rushing in without armour as they had prepared many spells that would be perfect for the encounter, and wouldn't have had to face all of the vampires at one time anyway. In fact, their spell selection does seem to indicate that they did anticipate an attack yet they weren't prepped as far as armour. IMO they just assumed they'd be able to don their armour in no time, which was their mistake, not the DM's.</blockquote>

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