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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5460961" data-attributes="member: 4682">I gamed in a group that often got sidetracked off on extended trips to the market for the purchasing and bartering whims of a pair of players. The DM seemed to enjoy this so it was indulged. After one particular session when nothing was accomplished but 4 hours of shopping, those of us who were politely/silently waiting for something to happen with our characters protested the evening as a waste.The DM replied that we should have chimed in telling him what we wanted to do in the market. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />We conspired for the next session that those of us who were bored out of our mind with the monopolizing of the game with the shopping expedition roleplay, we invented "vigilante personas" for our characters. Next session before shopping could resume again, we chimed in that we were putting our disguises on and went out to catch criminals in the alleys surrounding the market. Intentionally excluding the characters who we felt abused our time with clothing and food and jewelry shopping last time, we kept the DMs attention on doing stuff we wanted to do for hours. One of us pretended to be defenseless while the other vigilante characters waited in the shadows, teams of lowly thugs would pounce the "defenseless" character and the hiding characters would jump out and turn the balance into a route on the thieves. Lots of roof-top chasing, alley combat, tons of fun. The players who were left out of this protested that we were doing all this fun stuff and didn't include them. We pointed out that the DM told us last session to say what our characters were doing while their characters were out shopping their earned treasure away.They shopped. We were heroes.We never spent hours roleplaying shopping expeditions again. We also never had to break out the vigilante personas again.In retrospect, I kind of feel our response to the shopping was a tad petty and I wouldn't do it today. But I was young then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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