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    What is the most overlooked rule in dnd?

    The following include some of the rules I never saw enforced in both AD&D 2nd edition and D&D 3.X (I am not claiming I agree with all): - Demihuman maximum level limits - 10% more XP if character has 16 or more in class primary ability - Ammunition: ordinary (i.e. non magical) arrows, darts...
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    DM Schticks That Grind Your Gears

    6. DM's favouritism towards his girlfriend, who, by virtue of her "elevated status", gets to play an elf / half-shadow dragon / half-tarrasque / half-solar sorcerer/monk/assassin/rogue/uber-goddess, thereby transforming a long-standing campaign in which everybody had fun to another edition of...
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    [D&D]No more crunch books for me

    My last D&D purchase was PHB 3.5, and rules-wise it's gonna remain so. If I get the time to run my own game, I'll go for OOP (probably AD&D 2nd ed.).
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    D&D CHess set...getting it?

    No chance I'm gonna give WotC $200 for a chess set when I haven't bought a single RPG supplement in two years! What's next, D&D Monopoly or D&D Snakes and Ladders? :D
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    When Players don't respect the DM's rules - Help!

    As people said, you will be better off with another group that will understand the merit of a DM limiting class selection due to inexperience... Anyway, care for DMing a group in Greece? :D
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    Dopey things DM's have done.

    LOL! That was brilliant! The party is onboard a ship, travelling from Waterdeep to Baldur's Gate. DM: "You see a ship on the horizon. It's flying the flag of [insert enemy pirate lord's name]". Me (a 10th level mage keen to hurl fireballs at the enemy ship): "I'll go aloft and ready some...
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    When Players don't respect the DM's rules - Help!

    From this point of view, DM-imposed limitations seem annoying, but which is more desirable: a DM who is honest and says "look, guys, I don't think I'm comfortable with all this optional material, let's narrow it down" and later, as he gains more experience, begins to allow more options (in the...
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    When Players don't respect the DM's rules - Help!

    Well, it may be better that things went like this. Now you know that either that player had other issues with you about which you had no idea (hence the attitude), or he is so incredibly immature as to lose a friend over a game (we may love RPG, but it's just a game... says so in the title...
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    When Players don't respect the DM's rules - Help!

    It seems to me that this person is all too willing to push things to breaking point. Of course, you should not capitulate once more, IMHO. You are the DM, so the players play by your rules. If he wants to, he can run his own game. Now here's how I see it: ask him to leave and never play with...
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