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<blockquote data-quote="dkmurphy" data-source="post: 7004484" data-attributes="member: 6872030"><p>Pet Peeves I've house ruled in other editions:</p><p></p><p>No Paladins. I have only been in a group with 1 person who played a Paladin well. Most were lawful STUPID or lawful annoying. Those players were more disruptive than any other player/class combo I ran. So I'd let the one guy run a paladin and he ran it well and it was the only class he liked. He usually DM'd so when he got to play that is what he wanted and did it well. Anyone else, yeah, not so much. I'm going to be running a 5e game here and there for our group and I might/might not allow it. I'll probably discourage it, but not ban it unless a player really annoys me with it. </p><p></p><p>Item weights. Seriously how hard is it to look up how much weapons weigh? They got better with 5e. In prior editions, they had weights 2-5 times actual item weight, yes including scabbards. I used to be a knife maker and I had many weapon reproductions from historical weapons, and the historical weapons made properly were WAY lighter than listed in the book. And don't give me a line about size making it effectively heavier.... Some editions stated that certain things were more cumbersome, and other editions did not. 2e & 3e were really bad about this. Not that we ever paid too much attention to encumbrance rules, it just seemed really sloppy. It is easy enough to find out an average weight for stuff that is basically real. I didn't bother house ruling any of it when I ran games most games I ran and played in did not take encumbrance into account very much. Only when we would get a dragon horde or something. It was just a splinter that bugged me though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dkmurphy, post: 7004484, member: 6872030"] Pet Peeves I've house ruled in other editions: No Paladins. I have only been in a group with 1 person who played a Paladin well. Most were lawful STUPID or lawful annoying. Those players were more disruptive than any other player/class combo I ran. So I'd let the one guy run a paladin and he ran it well and it was the only class he liked. He usually DM'd so when he got to play that is what he wanted and did it well. Anyone else, yeah, not so much. I'm going to be running a 5e game here and there for our group and I might/might not allow it. I'll probably discourage it, but not ban it unless a player really annoys me with it. Item weights. Seriously how hard is it to look up how much weapons weigh? They got better with 5e. In prior editions, they had weights 2-5 times actual item weight, yes including scabbards. I used to be a knife maker and I had many weapon reproductions from historical weapons, and the historical weapons made properly were WAY lighter than listed in the book. And don't give me a line about size making it effectively heavier.... Some editions stated that certain things were more cumbersome, and other editions did not. 2e & 3e were really bad about this. Not that we ever paid too much attention to encumbrance rules, it just seemed really sloppy. It is easy enough to find out an average weight for stuff that is basically real. I didn't bother house ruling any of it when I ran games most games I ran and played in did not take encumbrance into account very much. Only when we would get a dragon horde or something. It was just a splinter that bugged me though. [/QUOTE]
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