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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigg" data-source="post: 3122693" data-attributes="member: 30546">When do you give them the list? Have you ever waited to give them the list until after hours had gone by in-game? If you hadn't given them the list yet, and two rooms later one of the PCs was devoured by a monster with all possessions lost, how would you decide what part of that list the PC was carrying? Do your players automatically know they are missing something when you "innocuously" ask them questions about a procedure that is normally glossed over as "SOP", thereby ruining any feeling of surprise the players can enjoy by their characters being surprised?I never said that I forgot to loot intentionally in a MMO game. That kinda makes it not "forgetting". On the other hand I have seen a great many MMO players intentionally leave loot lying around.When and where does this procedure occur? Again, has the party moved on and had subsequent encounters before this happens? Do you accumulate several lists to read off to them and do it all at once? If it's just a matter of you reading off a list at the end of a combat instead of waiting for them to say "We loot", then that's just a matter of DMing style where there is no real right and wrong as long as consistency is maintained. The OP has already stated that the usual practice in their game is to state the party is looting. In this case, the party forgot to loot because they forgot to state they were looting. They were excited they survived the fight... they were distracted by the possibility of other travellers happening by the scene of the fight... their minds were on a tankard of ale and a warm bed for the night. There are many reasons they might forget to rifle through a bunch of bloody corpses, pick one. The point is it's absolutely not wrong for the OP to not retcon the looting that the players forgot to perform just because it's not what you would do. The DM wasn't deliberately withholding the loot from the characters. In their game (and many other people's as well) looting is not assumed to be routine, so it needs to be played out.I do agree that is was unwise to tell the players how much they left behind... that was just rubbing salt in the wound.</blockquote>

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