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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6264402" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>They don't do it in the first place because they don't know invaders are in their lair. Once they know, they do that. You keep acting like this is going against the natural flow of the game. Having them not react like intelligent beings would go against the natural flow of the game. This really is a feature, not a bug. It's not a video game where you enter a new zone and then escape back to a safe zone - you're in the "house" of intelligent humanoids, and you just killed some of their family and friends, and now you're camping out in their living room and assuming they won't do as sneaky and nasty stuff as they can to retaliate or defend themselves. You're acting like those natural responses are somehow the DM having to "artificially" react to a game rule, or like it's some sort of dirty trick by the DM, when none of that is the case. If you camp in the living room of a house full of monsters some of which you just killed, they're going to do nasty things back at you even while you're camping. That's not an artificial reaction to rules or a dirty trick - that's just a believable setting.</p><p></p><p>Tell you what, why don't you smack a hornet hive with a bat so hard your arm hurts, and then sit there and wait until your arm feels better enough to give it another thwack, and tell me what the hornets do while you're resting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6264402, member: 2525"] They don't do it in the first place because they don't know invaders are in their lair. Once they know, they do that. You keep acting like this is going against the natural flow of the game. Having them not react like intelligent beings would go against the natural flow of the game. This really is a feature, not a bug. It's not a video game where you enter a new zone and then escape back to a safe zone - you're in the "house" of intelligent humanoids, and you just killed some of their family and friends, and now you're camping out in their living room and assuming they won't do as sneaky and nasty stuff as they can to retaliate or defend themselves. You're acting like those natural responses are somehow the DM having to "artificially" react to a game rule, or like it's some sort of dirty trick by the DM, when none of that is the case. If you camp in the living room of a house full of monsters some of which you just killed, they're going to do nasty things back at you even while you're camping. That's not an artificial reaction to rules or a dirty trick - that's just a believable setting. Tell you what, why don't you smack a hornet hive with a bat so hard your arm hurts, and then sit there and wait until your arm feels better enough to give it another thwack, and tell me what the hornets do while you're resting. [/QUOTE]
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