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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6555054" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It's not fair if the DM knows the rules of the game and the players don't. That's aside from the issue of inherent meaning and how the world actually works. You can represent PCs and NPCs differently, such as to simplify bookkeeping for yourself, but it still needs to be in a way that the players can understand based on their knowledge of how things work.I completely disagree, because it's an established fact of the world that you need at least X number of hit dice before you cast Y level of spells. As a player, I know that to be true, based on every piece of information available to me. If you want to change that, as the DM, then you're saying that the world doesn't actually work how I believe it to work. Which is fine, and there are nothing wrong with house rules, as long as everyone agrees to them. But you can't tell me that it works one way for this NPC, and my PC can't do the same thing, unless there's an in-game reason for it. The rules don't support a reality where PCs and NPCs are actually different, because PC vs NPC isn't a status which the game world can possibly recognize.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6555054, member: 6775031"] It's not fair if the DM knows the rules of the game and the players don't. That's aside from the issue of inherent meaning and how the world [I]actually[/I] works. You can represent PCs and NPCs differently, such as to simplify bookkeeping for yourself, but it still needs to be in a way that the players can understand based on their knowledge of how things work. I completely disagree, because it's an established fact of the world that you need at least X number of hit dice before you cast Y level of spells. As a player, I know that to be true, based on every piece of information available to me. If you want to change that, as the DM, then you're saying that the world doesn't actually work how I believe it to work. Which is fine, and there are nothing wrong with house rules, as long as everyone agrees to them. But you can't tell me that it works one way for this NPC, and my PC can't do the same thing, unless there's an in-game reason for it. The rules don't support a reality where PCs and NPCs are [I]actually[/I] different, because PC vs NPC isn't a status which the game world can possibly recognize. [/QUOTE]

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