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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3866751" data-attributes="member: 54364">In response to accusations of rules misinterpretations: I stand guilty.  When this campaign started I was brand new to 3.X. (I'd actually been overseas and away from gaming for several years.) Not so the players. I asked all the players to be honest and not rort the system on me. A pretty simple catch-all sort of thing to ask. I also said I would rely on them getting the rules for their characters right in the first place: I didn't want to have go and audit all the PCs later on.I also got the players to explain how the various things were supposed to work. eg: said player told me that TW Fighting worked like this and he could use 2 bucklers and so forth. Actually the buckler thing doesn't bother me, although this is the first I've heard of it. He loses attacks to get a point of AC. Fair enough. The mithril weapon being treated as light was also presented to me as a rule, not a liberal interpretation.What I said about feinting is my bad, but then no-one in the game has ever feinted: this is an area where the rules are bit skew-if IMO. I'd allow the trading of attacks for feinting. If I ever work out how the feiting rules work.Truth be told I've learnt a lot of the rules from here on Enworld. The rule books are the same old mess they've been since for ever but unlike when I was a kid I don't have the time or inclination to plough through them all and cross reference everything. Lazy? Yes but I have asked for help with the rules from the players. It'd be nice if that help would be a bit more honest.Anyway, before I de-rail myself further: the rules for my game were always intended to be RAW with house rulings made explicitly after discussion with all. My lack of knowledge of the rules was commonly understood and a gentleman's agreement was in place asking everyone to play fairly and not exploit my ignorance. I feel this player has not lived by that agreement. More to the point he took advantage of my easy going attitude and has been making up rules to suit himself and passing them off as genuine rules. Yeah, I'm pissed. Hence the snarkiness of the email I sent him.EDIT: oh he gets to keep using the oversized off hand weapon, without needing a feat. It's the full strength bonus with the offhand that is going. Something I'd already told him to lose when I first became aware of the proper rules a few months back.</blockquote>

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