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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6828507" data-attributes="member: 66434">It isn't a freedom of speech issue. We all have a right to our opinions and a forum such as this provides a platform to get them heard. Its more a matter of the worth of all of our collective opinions being worth less than a hill of beans compared to the actual people in that group. The character is just some statistics and notes. It can't think, it can't notice anything and it certainly cannot enjoy a game. A character is simply a vehicle the player uses to play the game. All aspects of play are for the player as the character wouldn't be able to appreciate or enjoy them. I don't see what happened as any sort of punishment, simply a DM letting an inattentive player reap the rewards of inattention. A player who was paying attention would have have had their spidey senses tingle when the shopkeeper asked if ALL of it was being sold. The dialogue meant something. It was the DM giving the player a chance to &quot;wake up&quot; and realize what was happening. The warning was ignored and the results are what you get. Making boneheaded mistakes is part of the fun of playing. Speaking only for myself, a game where everything goes as intended because &quot; my character wouldn't screw up&quot; reduces the player to little more than dice rolling observer and that would bore the hell out of me very quickly. Its a game. Mistakes get made, and disasters happen. But it is only a game. Lets not forget that when discussing the amount of butthurt being thrown around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 6828507, member: 66434"] It isn't a freedom of speech issue. We all have a right to our opinions and a forum such as this provides a platform to get them heard. Its more a matter of the worth of all of our collective opinions being worth less than a hill of beans compared to the actual people in that group. The character is just some statistics and notes. It can't think, it can't notice anything and it certainly cannot enjoy a game. A character is simply a vehicle the player uses to play the game. All aspects of play are for the player as the character wouldn't be able to appreciate or enjoy them. I don't see what happened as any sort of punishment, simply a DM letting an inattentive player reap the rewards of inattention. A player who was paying attention would have have had their spidey senses tingle when the shopkeeper asked if ALL of it was being sold. The dialogue meant something. It was the DM giving the player a chance to "wake up" and realize what was happening. The warning was ignored and the results are what you get. Making boneheaded mistakes is part of the fun of playing. Speaking only for myself, a game where everything goes as intended because " my character wouldn't screw up" reduces the player to little more than dice rolling observer and that would bore the hell out of me very quickly. Its a game. Mistakes get made, and disasters happen. But it is only a game. Lets not forget that when discussing the amount of butthurt being thrown around. [/QUOTE]

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