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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 4462005" data-attributes="member: 13732">I was a player, but as stated elsewhere, our game died.I'm not sure where to start so I'll start with the cool stuff that happened only in my imagination.What I'm really talking about is the hand waving that occured to get us back on track.  Our DM used plots from other adventures to include the arena and plotting between gladiatorial houses as further means of making the city of Sasserine more complete.  That was great until people started wanting to fight in the arena instead of following the STAP plot.  Hmm, now that I think about it, that wasn't something I bothered to "fill in the blanks", but it become something we did more than once.The next instance was trying to retrieve the Sea Wyvern and the Lotus Dragon's where still a threat to our group.  During one point we encountered a ghost, the captain of an old ship.  He apparently decided to haunt our halfling wizard, (but not in a bad way).  He convinced us to help him find the Dragon's Eye, a gem stolen from one of the Sasserine oceanic temples, by shark people (the sahuagin, however you spell that).  We had originally found the ship carrying the gem, but we realized we were getting derailed, so we never tracked down the gem.  Instead we just said we found it and continued on with STAP.  Part of the problem was that our group had split into 2, so we had people on the ship looking for the gem and people back in Sasserine waiting for gladiatorial combat.  My character was the only 1 from the original group looking for the gem.  So my story was finding the gem, rescuing a kidnapped mermaid and escaping from the rabid shark people.  This sounded good enough so the halfling player liked it as well.Later when we had to impress the locals of Farshore and Tanoroa, I repeated the story, (which of course nobody remembered).We also hand waved the battle against the demon monkey and gang in the Temple of the Prince of Demons in HTBM.  The real reason for skipping was because we were underpowered for the challenge, due to multiple character deaths.  Again I felt the urge to fill in the blank, so I figured the best way to take down a temple was some well placed Shatter spells targetting the big red crystal, which brought the roof down literally. I think our final hand waving was when our fighter/tempest attacked one of the Jade Ravens (what are they called?) and we switched it from getting shanked with 2 short swords to a fist fight.  The reason our fighter did it is childish and still something of a mystery to me.  Bored?  Frustated?  Being an asshat?  We played a few more times after that, but finally we gave up just after killing one of the Legendary 7 (the tyranosaurus) and animating one to bring back to Tanoroa.  Turns out the actual Hit Dice of the legendary monster is too high for Animate Dead, but the DM attacked us with a couple smaller T-Rex's on the way back so my cleric got to animate a trophy of somewhat lesser stature.</blockquote>

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