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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7407766" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I’m pointing out how your original post could have been construed. In the way that you originally described it, it certainly seemed to amount to nothing more than a gotcha by the DM. So, without adding later comments into it, look at the scenario as described and then try and see if you can understand some of the responses.Adding comments afterward may clarify things, but I was trying to explain to you why your post was taken the way it was when you made it. It’s not that I didn’t accept it. It’s that there was nothing else in the initial description that would serve as a reasonable explanation for why it happened. I was explaining how your post could be perceived.You have since pointed out the backstory about the wild mage, and also how inconsequential the failed leap is. I assumed there was a check being made and some kind of consequence, that’s why I would have taken issue with it. But given that it’s such a minor occurrence just being used to add flavor, then I wouldn’t worry about it.Well, why does a gotcha moment have to be severe? I mean, I get how the scenario as you’ve gone on to elaborate has virtually no consequence, so it’s not a big deal, but what if the ditch was a bit larger and a maybe a bit of falling damage was involved? Even such a small consequence, to me, would constitute a gotcha by the DM.I don’t think it’s irrelevant for someone to poibt out examples of why they do or don’t prefer a certain playstyle in a thread that’s about exactly that. Subjectivity is all that’s in question, man.Look....I’m not saying anything you do in your game is wrong. I really was just hoping to step in as a more “neutral party” to explain the point that was being made because it was clear to me, but was obviously not clear to you. You gave an example that seemed to fit exactly the kind of thing pemerton doesn’t like. Turns out that was only the case because your example was inconplete when first posted....okay fine. But you can’t fault anyone who responded to your incomplete example.</blockquote>

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