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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6118126" data-attributes="member: 22779">Sorry about the city thing.  As I said, it's been some years since I played this, did not enjoy the experience and quite honestly forgot the exact details.  I knew we popped into the desert and then had to go somewhere.  But, as I said, WAYYYY back, the exact details are very fuzzy.  Of course, the thing is, we've pretty much moved past the exact situation and into another one.  I'm not sure why N'raac wants to focus on the specific example, and not the presented hypothetical of starting in a desert and having a known goal.To me, the details are largely irrelevant.  Me, the player made his goals specifically known, and the DM's in this thread would call me whiney and whatnot.  My point is, when the player makes his or her preferences pretty strongly known, and provides a means in games for achieving those preferences, even if it's not entirely kosher by the rules, I would prefer to go with it.  The player does not want to screw around wandering the desert (which apparently, I was 100% right about) and wants to skip that stuff.  The player provides a means by which you can plausibly do so.  But, apparently, some DM's will refuse this, mostly on the grounds that it might skip other player's fun, despite knowing that at least one player has zero interest in what's going on.Like I said a bunch of times, I refuse to throw one player under the bus just so another player can have a good time.  I won't do it.  I don't run a democracy.  There is no vote and the majority most certainly does not rule.  One player is completely tuned out of what's going on?  Skip it and move on.  If that player consistently tunes out to many things (N'raac's contention that any player that wants to skip the desert will want to skip EVERYTHING), then you step aside and talk to the player and possibly part ways.  But, if it's just this one time?  Not a problem.  Transition the scene as fast as possible and move on.At least, that's my advice.</blockquote>

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