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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 25768" data-attributes="member: 1710">Okay, some of you seem to be missing the point here.To the people saying that the DM was soft on the player by letting the barbarian live; NO. You can't seem to grasp the fact that this was not a legit encounter, it was blatant theft. The harpies were not there because of a random encounter, or because the DM knew the PCs would be flying or any garbage like that. The harpy attack was the DM's spur of the moment method of stealing the PC's equipment. There was no danger of the PC dying, because the DM only wanted to take his possessions. Why? Because the player had already already stated his intent to sell the bulk of his stuff at the next convenient location. You can't approach this situation as if it were a normal encounter and say that the PC was lucky he didn't die, blah blah blah, and pretend that the player was at fault, because it was the DM's artificial device thought up for the express purpose of screwing that player out of whatever profit he'd have made in the next town.To the people saying that the harpies might not have been regular harpies and in light of that, they could behave in any manner the DM wanted. NO AGAIN.This line of thinking only applies if it was a real encounter, but it wasn't, it was just the DM preventing the player from selling his items by abusing his place as the moderator. How do we know this was his aim? Because of his history of munchkinism and the fact that this DM has two sets of rules, one for himself, and one for the players.If the players had all gotten robbed because they split up and brigands jumped them, fine. If the harpies were half-fiends and that's why they took his stuff, fine. The DM was generous in not killing them. I'd say it was the DM's decision.But when you take into account the DM's penchant for munchkinism and the fact that the PC that got swarmed was the one that had said he was going to pawn all of his stuff...Too suspicious to be coincidence. If the DM was uncomfortable about the amount of items the group had, he should have been honest and resolved it without behaving like a thug. But then, the only player who is now without his hard-won items is (say it with me now), the guy who made it known ahead of time that he wanted to sell them.While we're at it, how often would every PC in the party be able to fly? Should the barbarian have just sat on his Wings of Flying and not used them at all? Of course if he uses them he'd be separated from the group. If all the PCs in their group had methods of flight and they posted about their awesome mid-air victory over a flock of harpies some of you would probably accuse them of being munchkins.I guess some people just can't win.(Well not when the DM wants to "win" anyway...)</blockquote>

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