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<blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 4739069" data-attributes="member: 79670">Nope, not even remotely. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> As I mentioned in the other thread, I can't watch volcano movies either for this very reason. Wouldn't have mattered if it had been a puzzle full of 'Yes, go ahead, you *can* do that, good eye spotting that'. The lava still would have bothered the hell out of me. (Nor was it the last appearance of lava. Later 'challenges' involving lava had it coming within inches of us. Again, no effect. Again, me facepalming.)It's a pet peeve of mine, a longstanding one I've had for many, many years since before I even knew what D&amp;D was. Same thing with earthquake movies and really any natural disaster movie. I'm sitting there trying not to scream at the screen that that isn't how it frakking works, dang it.Stuff like that I tend to see mostly as an insult to the intelligence of both myself and the other players. Doesn't matter how well-done the puzzle is. If it's magic non-hot lava, I'm automatically taken out of it. Even with the shutting down and 'no you can't do that', I would have liked that puzzle if it had just been *water* instead of lava. One simple change, and it's a logically consistent puzzle that is believeable as something that has been used before and will be again, is still perfectly dangerous and potentially deadly, and doesn't leave me going 'what no not the damned lava thing from movies it doesn't work that way'. I was annoyed with that puzzle before it started, heh.But then I'm That Guy who gets annoyed when space battles have sound effects. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nai_Calus, post: 4739069, member: 79670"] Nope, not even remotely. :p As I mentioned in the other thread, I can't watch volcano movies either for this very reason. Wouldn't have mattered if it had been a puzzle full of 'Yes, go ahead, you *can* do that, good eye spotting that'. The lava still would have bothered the hell out of me. (Nor was it the last appearance of lava. Later 'challenges' involving lava had it coming within inches of us. Again, no effect. Again, me facepalming.) It's a pet peeve of mine, a longstanding one I've had for many, many years since before I even knew what D&D was. Same thing with earthquake movies and really any natural disaster movie. I'm sitting there trying not to scream at the screen that that isn't how it frakking works, dang it. Stuff like that I tend to see mostly as an insult to the intelligence of both myself and the other players. Doesn't matter how well-done the puzzle is. If it's magic non-hot lava, I'm automatically taken out of it. Even with the shutting down and 'no you can't do that', I would have liked that puzzle if it had just been *water* instead of lava. One simple change, and it's a logically consistent puzzle that is believeable as something that has been used before and will be again, is still perfectly dangerous and potentially deadly, and doesn't leave me going 'what no not the damned lava thing from movies it doesn't work that way'. I was annoyed with that puzzle before it started, heh. But then I'm That Guy who gets annoyed when space battles have sound effects. :devil: [/QUOTE]

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