Roadtrip!

Well that answers that :D My next trip to Dunedin is now scheduled for the weekend of the 23rd, all going well. I plan to make this a more leisurely visit than the past few, which have seemed to be downsaturdaybattlenapdinnerpartysleepbrunchbacksunday.

That was not an evening well spent

I should have pulled the plug on the session right at the beginning, when they couldn't even agree to follow the course of action they had decided on at the end of the previous session.

The rest of the night was just bickering, bickering, bickering all the way through until I finally got fed up and closed early. My patience is about exhausted.

Roleplaying is supposed to be a group activity but four out of six of my players are so busy trying to follow their own little personal agendas that group play just isn't happening.

One PC died. Fireballs are hard on a 4th level party. You'd think the first one would have been a good indication that they had entered a situation where they didn't have room to dither around. There are Raise Deads available of course, if they manage to get back to the core without all being killed. It was ... tempting.

Fortunately for them they retreated rather than pursuing when the opponents decided that the odds weren't looking so good and withdrew. A pursuit would have lead to a TPK.