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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9275032" data-attributes="member: 22779">I guess I just don't understand the point in forcing one player to ride the pines in real time because the trap "is complicated" and "will take 10 minutes to disarm", and thus the rest of the party now has to role-play, right now because, "Umm, we wait until the rogue is finished" is apparently too much?When one player is doing the thing that his or her character is specialized to do, there shouldn't be any spotlight sharing.  This is the time for that character to absolutely glisten on center stage.  Sidelining the trap disarmer to role-play a bunch of fairly pointless actions (what can you realistically do in ten minutes?) is, IMO, terrible advice.  If that player has spent the time and resources to be the trap disarmer (or the tracker, or the scout or the face, or whatever), when that character is doing that thing, then that is where all the attention should be.It works on the player side too.  "Oh, the rogue is scouting ahead, well, okay, I'm going to follow five feet behind him in my plate mail armor clad warrior" because heaven forbid something might happen in the game that doesn't revolve around that player too.To me, all you've done is disincetivised making an exploration based character.  Because if I'm doing my job as an exploration character, that means that I can't actually participate in that 10 minutes of role-play you just called for.  After all, I'm disarming that trap.  I'm busy.  I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.  And being punished for doing what I am supposed to be doing because the spotlight just got shifted off of me with no way for me to actually participate.  Why would I want to be the exploration based character if every time (or even some of the time) I do my job, I get sidelined and the spotlight shifts to the rest of the party?  When a character is doing what it's supposed to be doing, that spotlight should be right on top of that character.</blockquote>

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