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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 851426" data-attributes="member: 151">Heh.  Personally, I've always seen house-rules as either band-aids or style preference with a little bit of hubris thrown in.  I don't like using them much, because to me, they're either an indulgence of the DM, or they are there to shore up a system that isn't working too well.  If I have to use a lot of house rules to make the game playable, I consider that a fault of the system.  If I choose to use house rules to make the system behave differently for a particular reason, that's another issue entirely.When 1e failed to fulfill our needs back in the day, house-rules filled the gap, but they became as bad as the original problem, and so we left D&D entirely.</blockquote>