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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5407339" data-attributes="member: 61155">Oh yeah, it still definitely happens without actual in-game 'interrupts'.  DM: "Alright, so the Ancient One has just awoken, and..."Player 1: "Hey, did you remember <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0034.html" target="_blank">Bard Song</a>?"Player 2: "Oh, right... I guess I did 3 more damage."DM: "I guess the monster died, and didn't kill Player 3."Player 3: "I'm alive again! I guess I finished scratching out the runes on the platform on my turn, then."DM: "I guess the Ancient One that just erupted through the portal and turned you all into gibbering madmen... instead vanished into mist. But when the runes were broken, instead, the cavern also starts to collapse, so rocks fall and..."Player 1: "Oh yeah, I mentioned I was casting Earthwalk on all of us before we entered the last fight, right?"DM: ... I think it's more common now less because interrupts let you do stuff during other player's turns, and more because having triggers means needing to play much closer attention to the game - and some attention spans aren't quite up to the task.</blockquote>