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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9770009" data-attributes="member: 6779196">For whatever it’s worth, my two cents on the matter is:[ISPOILER]I think Matt’s call was perfectly reasonable. Taliesin made kind of an unforced error for sure, but in his defense, it was kinda what the class he was playing was built to do, and I kind of understand him wanting to play aggressively. And like you said, it had been a long game and everyone was tired.Ashly Birch prioritized roleplaying in a way that was actively detrimental to her character’s effectiveness in combat, which in my opinion is fine when it only affects your character, but can become a problem when it affects other players’ characters, which it did here. But, I recognize that it isn’t my table, and as there were no hard feelings among the cast, I think it was perfectly acceptable. Moreover, the response from a lot of fans, particularly towards Birch, was completely inappropriate.[/ISPOILER]And I’ll say again that in the long term, it was hugely impactful on the overarching story. Any finger-pointing about whose fault it was, if any, falls ultimately flat in the face of that being a defining moment of the campaign. The goal of D&D is to have fun and create exciting, memorable stories, and in that moment they absolutely succeeded in doing so. That’s all that really matters at the end of the day.</blockquote>