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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 485148" data-attributes="member: 259">I'm occasionally the weest bit of a rules-lawyer myself, and I'm not convinced that this is the best idea.  Instead, implement a policy of the 1-minute rules-check:If someone thinks you're ruling something wackily, they've got one minute to look up the ruling and show it to you.  You'll then decide on how to handle it, and there's no more discussion until after the session.Meanwhile, ask the rules-lawyer to point out mistaken rulings that work in *favor* of the PCs as well.  The other rules-lawyer in our group recently did this for me:In a big battle, a cultist cleric was hit with an Otiluke's Resilient Sphere.  Later, a PC cultist positioned a flame strike to cover the cleric and another villain.  Lacking a clear ruling and feeling expansive, I decided that cylinder-spells are not burst spells, and so they're not blocked by things like an ORS.Later, the cleric's player, a rules-lawyer, sent me a passage from the SRD confirming that cylinders were essentially funkily-shaped bursts.  His flame strikes just became slightly less powerful.Encourage your rules-lawyer to do the same thing.Daniel</blockquote>