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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2569062" data-attributes="member: 5143">I actually find it is the other way around.  When you KNOW that you can charge and you KNOW it adds a +2 bonus to your attack roll and lowers your AC by 2, then you know your options, you know what effects they will likely have.  Then you can decide "Would my character be the type who would risk himself this way?" and take the action.The other way tends to end up with players making role playing decisions based on assumptions in the rules that end up killing them when they figured there was no risk.  I have yet to run into a DM who changed ALL his house rules upfront.  I had a couple who listed SOME houserules upfront, then as play progressed "discovered" all sorts of house rules as they suddenly learned how the RAW worked (they couldn't be expected to READ the rules, after all, it was their game, they could make up their own rules) and decided they didn't like the RAW.It seems a difference in attitude, all of the DMs I've met who follow the rules rarely have any house rules at all or 1 or 2 at most.  Others who like to house rule tend to change almost everything, haven't read the rules(or did, 2 years ago...then forgot all the rules he didn't like), and come up with house rules for small situations that may never come up again on the fly.</blockquote>