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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3171668" data-attributes="member: 114">I'd consider getting rid of that just plain sense on the DMs part <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=":)" />The other stuff though... no.Ha ha! The fool! He fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: If the players ask you whether or not they can do something, say YES rather than NO.YES opens up possibilities in the game, and encourages creativity. NO closes options down (and rolling the dice and saying NO is pretty much the same as just saying NO, FWIW). Furthermore it goes against his apparent goals in wanting to promote a resource-poor yet cinematic game.The other bad thing I see here is the 'stepping in puddles' syndrome - where a PC says 'I'll make sure I don't step in any puddles', and the DM then asks them to make a balance check or something, and they step in a puddle if they fail - when if they hadn't mentioned the flavourful activity, they never would have stepped in a puddle at all.Bad lucky, Taky. I hope your wife continues to find it fun regardless.Has he published his wide variety of house rules to you?</blockquote>