[PvK]

Thermo, personally, I would say your move was fine as long as there was no written house rule against it. Is it possible you missed an earlier discussion of this rule by joining late?

In any case, however, the game master has the final say on what is done. It sounds like he has strong feelings about surrender which aren't uncommon. They should be spelled out however, and I agree that it would be a lot more fair to you to discuss it with you first. Now that you know it's an issue to some players, it'd be good to check with game masters before surrendering, even if I wouldn't say you were clearly responsible to do so.

Basically it's a misunderstanding and lack of communication. I don't think anyone should need to have bad feelings about it.

PvK