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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Will" data-source="post: 926948" data-attributes="member: 5566">(whew, long thread)Well, put me in the camp that boggles at the timing.First, I, as a player, would _not_ have any reasonable expectation that 'an explosion' would mean 'I better get there in less than 4 minutes.'I mean... 4 minutes? Takes me longer than that to walk down the street. Sure, I guess I could get further on a griffon or something, but...The idea that an explosion heralds something so dramatic that I have to be there _right this minute_ seems unwarranted. Yes, it could be Cthulhu waking from a long nap, but it could also be the alchemist street igniting again.If it were me, I would have sat there, putting on armor, until somebody told me things were more urgent.Which nobody did.And, after two hours of sitting there, not playing, I would have been really pissed off at the players who didn't inform my character what was going on, and at the DM for setting up the situation.I would have had more grace than the bozo did, but as the two other players may have been thinking, I would be reconsidering playing that game again.The only time I expect time-critical events like that is an ambush or people attacking where I am, or when we are at watch. And, all things considered, I think I could easily see 'attacking vampires and 100 dead/spawned villagers' vs. 'attacking vampires without armor' as a fairly clear 'choose #2' situation.The other thing that would have annoyed the hell out of me, as soon as I figured it out, was that it was clear that the DM was setting the players up. Not the vampires... I'm sure the vampires wouldn't be thinking 'well, it'll take them 4 minutes to put on plate armor...'The DM was specifically setting up a situation where they couldn't use their armor. It smacks of a DM domination game, and I would not be happy with it, if I were a player.Let me be clear... I'm not saying Fusngite is a mean DM, a bad DM, or a jerk, or anything like that. I've encountered times when I, or other DMs, have backed into a corner and gotten stubborn about some point. I think this is one of those times.You jerked them around. They weren't happy. One handled it like a dick. There you go.</blockquote>

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