<del>As a player prone to major life crises, I can say that I don't mind being 'puppetted' by the DM if I lag on my posts.  If the DM thinks this is unreasonable, then I accept that I've lost a degree of participation and leave it to them to decide how to proceed.  Personally, I think it's safe for a DM to control a character until the end of an encounter and then democratically decide the character's fate (pit trap, planar shift, sudden illness, etc).</del><br/><br/>Oops.  My reply was, evidently, pointless at this time.  WB Alchemist :D