I'm watching a live play, the DM set the torches to 30mins per torch, and it seems like he's having so much trouble with the VTT he's just burning through the torches of his party while he awkwardly mumbles "Hold on...let me just.....I got all your initiatives here but....since you guys can't see them please roll them again...."
So, my question is, have you guys ever had a DM who instead of pausing the torchlight timer just forgot and kept it on because he was trying to get all his notes in order and wasn't really advancing the dungeon in anyway while making you all wait as he sifted through his notes and as a result, burned up your torch time? How'd you handle it? Did you tell him to pause the timer if he was gunna take so long or did you just silently watch the torches burn?
I also noticed when the torch went out, he didn't really do anything with it. The players had just opened a "oft used door" and I thought like, they were gunna get attacked in the dark or something, but instead he just made them all roll 1 by 1 to relight another torch and like 3 of them failed in a roll before the 4th one finally got it and I was just left there thinking "wtf was the point of that??" like that seemed like the perfect time to introduce a small combat or something, even like 2 goblins in the dark would've been a bad time, and then at least it would've made sense to roll. But if you're rolling, and failing does nothing, and we're just gunna go in a big circle until the party succeeds...why are we even wasting our time doing that? Just say the party lights the torch lol.
For clarity, I know very little about the Shadowdark rules I'm just trying to slowly learn.
Also, are LFG's allowed on this sub and if so how come I don't see many?
Any good suggestions for OSR style Live Play where they run it like old style games with that sort of aesthetic and power level?