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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 7309067" data-attributes="member: 6685730">It would take a few more occurrences of that (run my character) to make me walk out.  I can handle one or two.  That being said, the Basic Rules lay it out pretty well in the Adventuring section:(Paraphrased)1. DM describes situation.2. Players say what they want to do.3. DM describes resolution.Now, the DM can treat everything like a battle scene, and it drives me nuts when it happens.  Because: miniatures aren't necessary for walking around non-combat scenes, I don't want to make a "check" for everything, and hit points are awkward.  I have definitely held an opponent at arrow/sword point in the past, just to get drawn into a long combat scene because: hit points.This sounds like a good idea, simply because I got nervous just reading it.The flip side of "because: players" is "because: DMs."  The DM can have the most dramatic, awesome scene planned out and need a little rule zero to make it happen, but the players don't know that.  All they see is, "there's a knife to our buddy's throat, and he'll die if we don't act."</blockquote>