I'm not sure why this even has to be explained. I feel like I'm being turned into "the big bad DM" when this is common sense. I want everyone to have fun and to be honest, all of you are excellent(!) Role players! I just want to nip this in the bud in case this comes up again during something important.
Regardless of semantics or back tracking, everyone has to role play what they are doing. You can't just say, oh well I didn't say anything at the time but I did it anyways, tee hee. When you do that, you aren't giving anyone a chance to role play. In that particular situation, Betimi had no chance to ask where Mardak was going or to follow him or to ask, ummm why are you peeping at the Priestess. And Selina was given no chance (even though it was implied he had seen something) to notice Mardak. Also, Selina might say she isn't that perceptive, but she has a huge Wisdom (+4) which happens to be the stat that Listen and Spot are based. While Mardak's hide and move silently is based upon his Dex (+0). So Selina could have easily noticed Mardak and it would have most likely created an interesting role playing opportunity which means bonus xp's. The reason I created a Campfire thread is so you guys can role play as much as you want without people feeling like the players who are role playing are slowing down the action in the game.
So please, role play until your heart is content and give others a chance to role play with you.
Regardless of semantics or back tracking, everyone has to role play what they are doing. You can't just say, oh well I didn't say anything at the time but I did it anyways, tee hee. When you do that, you aren't giving anyone a chance to role play. In that particular situation, Betimi had no chance to ask where Mardak was going or to follow him or to ask, ummm why are you peeping at the Priestess. And Selina was given no chance (even though it was implied he had seen something) to notice Mardak. Also, Selina might say she isn't that perceptive, but she has a huge Wisdom (+4) which happens to be the stat that Listen and Spot are based. While Mardak's hide and move silently is based upon his Dex (+0). So Selina could have easily noticed Mardak and it would have most likely created an interesting role playing opportunity which means bonus xp's. The reason I created a Campfire thread is so you guys can role play as much as you want without people feeling like the players who are role playing are slowing down the action in the game.
So please, role play until your heart is content and give others a chance to role play with you.
