Should a DM assume your character does something?

[Pielorinho]

I more or less agree with Al. Tsyr, honestly -- would your character not have gone up the stairs? Almost as important, did your DM have any reason to believe that your character would not have gone up the stairs?

For example, when going through the corridors of the dungeon and coming to an intersection, when one party member said, "I go north," did you often say, "I don't. I stay here"?

If you'd not regularly dissented from basic movement descriptions of party members, then I think the DM didn't have a reason to think you'd dissent in this case. More importantly, I think you wouldn't have dissented had no trap been mentioned.

I may be wrong, of course. But I think you've not addressed this point.

Did you, before the trap was mentioned, intend not to go up the stairs? Had you established a pattern of dissenting to movement descriptions?

Daniel

 

[Hand of Evil]

This is why you should have a party leader. It is assumed what he does the others follow, unless they state otherwise. If they are not the leader and say they are doing something, they are the only one doing it. Well, that is how I handle it.

There are a lot of little task that party members do that are assumed, making camp, feeding the horses, gathering firewood, travel formation, moving from point a to b. Some of these task should be defined and taken for granted, just remember who is where and doing what.