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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2483578" data-attributes="member: 22424">Quick question: what are American dice? How do they differ from any other dice?As regards the player, all I can recommend is that you sit down with her (preferably privately) and have a serious talk with her about the issues. You need to explain the problems, explain why they're problems, and ask her to help you resolve them.As regards breaking the rules of the game, you need to draw a clear distinction between those cases where she's breaking the rules as written (where you can simply tell her to go away and read the rules again), and those areas where she might have found a weakness in the written rules (that's what the no-save fireball sounds like - spells that require touch attacks generally don't allow saves). In the latter case, you should be spelling out, preferably in writing, the modifications you're making to the rules as written. Otherwise, what she's doing isn't unreasonable, just annoying. If something is rules-legal, it's hardly unreasonable to try to use it.As regards the rules arguments, you need to make it clear that, as DM, your rulings are final. You'll hear an appeal, sure, but arguing for 2 minutes is just not acceptable. For most players, such a statement is unnecessary, but obviously not in this case. (Incidentally, you were absolutely right about the bar situation, IMO)Where she's playing the character in a manner contrary to her alignment, you are within your rights to warn her that continued action in this vein will cause an alignment shift. If that shift takes her outside the allowed range for Clerics of her deity, she loses all spells until she returns to the fold.One thing: I do not like this intelligent item she has. This sounds like an item where the DM (you) can basically tell the character what to do at almoast any time, and then enforce it with ego rolls. There's a thread about overruling PC actions. Basically, my view is that the DM should very very rarely do so, hence my dislike of the item.</blockquote>

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