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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anvilandcompass" data-source="post: 8535004" data-attributes="member: 7034849">Yeah. I think the issue is on both sides. Splitting the party is not always a good idea - sometimes it can work but most times it doesn't. D&D is a cooperative game after all. Sharing in your plans and bringing the group along would have helped there. That said, I've played sessions where two or more players are sidelined for two to three hours. Sometimes more. Of course my issue is different: too big a party, players that hog the spotlight and make no pauses while talking at all (push to talk rule would help...) and a constant amount of side tracking. There have been two sessions now where we haven't done any quest or any plot driven anything and in one session, two players went off to a fight club for two hours while the rest of the party waited. By the time it was my group's turn, I couldn't drive the plot forward because it was too late, and someone derailed everything by putting attention on their own character splitting the party because they could "take the bad guy on their own if they wanted to."I had about 10 minutes of interaction maybe and most of it was my character listening to others. The DM even derailed the party enough by bringing in NPCs just to bring NPCs. Nothing important about them other than grab more time. I was sidelined from a lot of the stuff, and while I do RP in other games, in this one my character barely said anything. In the end, it was like listening to a podcast. Fell asleep on my chair a few times and another player even went to get food lol. There is a text RP going on that moves some plot - some times - but if the sessions aren't going to hold any importance, then just to a play by post game, because the sessions could be handled better there, to be honest. Even then, the DM has pulled some deus ex machina stuff to hold characters from doing certain things. So, it always feels like a constant loss and that you are being manipulated by the big bad.It was that bad.</blockquote>

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