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I like it, I like it! I lol'd at the last "my conscience is clear" line under the treasure division rule. That's the way I roll (role?), too. I love seeing everyone's different table rules. Gives me ideas, but also it shows me how we're all doing different stuff even with mostly similar outlooks.

These are all excellent, and I think we've all had to deal with all three of these at one point, unfortunately. I applaud your table rules! This has been a very interesting topic so far, and I am loving all the varied responses.

I love it! These are excellent. And I totally agree about peoples' expectations of D&D being vastly different due to varied experience and that all iterations of it have a lot of 3PP support now. That is exactly why I wrote out the table rules I have for old school campaigns. They apply in...

Also a fine rule! Unless the DM is colluding with them to make the character a party-screwing villain in a gigantic story swerve. That I am fine with lol

That is always a good rule.

Lol well, it is True! Even if there wasn't a trap in there and they just reach in, I might hit 'em with a mild one as a lesson to use a stick first hahah! I do what I can to warn players who haven't played with me before. I've found handing this table rules sheet to players helps going in, as...

Yeah, the tables I had with high school friends had an unwritten set that we all followed, for sure.

Hey, even a few rules is what I was looking to see. I was curious about what other DMs out there are using, whether with friends or with new folks. Very interesting about the speaker, you could queue up something rather fast from a play list. Technology working for good there. Pretty cool stuff.

I like it! It sounds as if we are largely of the same mind in a lot of areas. Respect!

I took this from an old blog post of mine since I would like to see what other DMs do similarly at their table. Fire away with your replies. I am a fan of letting players know up front what sort of campaign they will be experiencing, both in-game and at the table as friends. I find it useful to...

I always make sure my players, when they say they'll play, know I have final say on what can enter the campaign, full stop. I mean, my game world, my game. That's always been my method of approach over my 30+ years of running games. Lately I compile the resources they can use before anything...

This post right here. You nailed it. Any gripe with any system can be eliminated by eliminating what you don't like within it. The DM disallows it IS A RULE if you want it to be.

Oh yeah, I remember the Edition Wars. I was there for all of it. It all went from Fandom to Fandumb fast. I played with a group that, when Skills & Powers and Combat & Tactics hit 2nd Edition, it was yhe end of the world as they knew it, and they just weren't gonna have it. But, when I decided...

They must have boring imaginations.

I loved Thunder Rift. That could have been so much more than it was. But it did serve its purpose. Right now I'm also mapping, but a beast of my own creation, The Necropolis of Voor, in my own setting. My goal is 20 levels of character killing hell. One of the first things I hand players is a...

I thought the exact same thing.

How have I never thought of this before?! This is a great idea. I was just wondering to myself how to best encourage exploration as a game goal and this solves it.

Your last 2 paragraphs hit the nail on the head. I dearly love being able to create stuff endlessly no matter what system, and 3rd lets them clunk right into place.

Minimum levels sound like a great idea, actually. And yes, DM complicity is very much key to runaway optimization. Never be complicit in wrecking your own game.

I am still from the school of DMing that holds I am the final arbiter of all rules. It doesn't matter to me at all if a player REALLY wants that prestige class - if it doesn't fit in my world or if I don't like it, it will not appear in my game. The de-emphasis of this within modern rule sets...