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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 2582805" data-attributes="member: 3424">When can the DM say &quot;No&quot;? Any time he likes, as long as as he recognizes that the players are judging him.I'm fine with a DM saying, &quot;No elves in my campaign.&quot;However, a DM who says he allows elves and, after my elven ranger rushes to the front lines to battle a couple of ghouls and gets hit, tells me to save against paralysis because he didn't like the fact that elves are immune to ghoul paralysis is bordering on not OK. After all, even though it is RAW, this information is in the MM and he has the right to adapt the monsters in his campaign.A DM who tells my elven ranger to make his save against the sleep spell cast by the wizard BBEG crosses the line for me. It's right there in the PH and he should have called it out as a house rule when I made my character. I might tolerate such lapses if he manages to convince me that he meant to tell me but forgot, but anything that hints of &quot;I-just-changed-this-rule-because-I-don't-like-it&quot; will be enough to make me walk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 2582805, member: 3424"] When can the DM say "No"? Any time he likes, as long as as he recognizes that the players are judging him. I'm fine with a DM saying, "No elves in my campaign." However, a DM who says he allows elves and, after my elven ranger rushes to the front lines to battle a couple of ghouls and gets hit, tells me to save against paralysis because he didn't like the fact that elves are immune to ghoul paralysis is bordering on not OK. After all, even though it is RAW, this information is in the MM and he has the right to adapt the monsters in his campaign. A DM who tells my elven ranger to make his save against the [I]sleep[/I] spell cast by the wizard BBEG crosses the line for me. It's right there in the PH and he should have called it out as a house rule when I made my character. I might tolerate such lapses if he manages to convince me that he meant to tell me but forgot, but anything that hints of "I-just-changed-this-rule-because-I-don't-like-it" will be enough to make me walk. [/QUOTE]

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