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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2595177" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, considering I'm the one who answered that, I think that I gave a pretty solid rules lawyer answer.  Although, I like Henry's Rules Guru better.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Standard practice in 3.5 is that anything which is not specifically limited or mentioned by the rules doesn't exist.  Since there is absolutely no mention anywhere of a mechanical trap being limited to a DC of 25, then that limit doesn't exist.  That assumption that you don't have to add to the rules to make them work, is one of the basic assumptions of 3e.  I remember one of the biggest problems in the magic creation rules was the assumption that a caster HAD to be the caster level listed in the DMG, despite the fact that caster level is NOT a pre-req.  Yet, DM after Dm argued that it was.  It took WOTC to officially errata that to solve the issue and it STILL comes up five years later.  I agree that the DM will have to make rules sometimes.  A recent example from my game is, could a harpy that has fallen into water above her head, take off from the water?  I ruled no.  Wet feathers makes flight difficult and a harpy has claws, not webbed feet like a duck.  It can't take off from water.  Is that covered in the RAW?  Nope.  Not even a little.  So, I made a ruling BECAUSE it is not covered in the RAW.  Where the malfunctions usually (not always, but many times) come in, is when DM's decide that their pet idea is automatically better than the RAW even when definitive proof is shown to the contrary.Primitive Screwhead - yeah, I could see dervishes in a pirate community.  Unfortunately, like I said, the PC was an officer on a merchant ship, owned a large home, had never travelled further than the city he grew up in until he joined the crew of a ship and never bothered to include any details of a dervish nature in his depiction of his character.  To me, that adds up to not being a dervish.  He could have been a dervish had he bothered to play it up before trying to take the PrC, but, the background of the character just did not support being one.</blockquote>

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