Hey! I wasn't calling YOU an idiot, esspesally with the amount of crap you let us get away with. My point was that even with an evil tyrant GM who murders us for having fun, the combat still destroys anything offered by CRPGs.
I mean, hell, we spent 30 minutes fighting a freating plant. In NWN or BG or whatever, that same battle would have taken 12 seconds and have been completely irrelivent.
Llyranor rolling a perfect 20 on his trip attack to hit, then failing the roll to actually make the trip was way more intense than anything i've experianced in a CRPG, and it was nothing but a freaking trip attack.
For a further example, me casting 'create water' on the second cat in the hope that it would slow it down enough to give us an advantage. I COULD have just shot the thing, and with a critical I could have killed it in one hit, but I took the gambit that with the freedom to essentially 'do what I want', I might as well use said freedom. Which is the same freedom that has me sitting on a camel rather than an actually useful animal companion, both of which could have been vetoed by a dictator GM, but both of which would have been impossible in a CRPG.
Take it from me, the fact that Llyranor and I arn't doing everything in our power to break the game from the inside means that we appresiate the GMing.
If you were a moron, we'd all be dead.