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Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 1665805" data-attributes="member: 9734">No police force, just certain types of players.The folks in my group give me a lot of leeway as a DM.  They don't worry about such things as whether or not all of the skill points I assign to an NPC add up.  They seem to be comfortable with trusting me to provide them with an adventure that is challenging and fun, without feeling a need to "check the math".  Took me a while to realize that they did in fact trust me with the system.  Once I did, I started having a lot more fun as a 3E DM.  But until then, I spent a lot of time during game prep worrying about balance.  We still have game days where we spend too much time in-game, scratching our heads about what modifiers stack, etc.., but all in all, we're playing 3E how we want, without fear of an Inquisition.However, I've witnessed other groups where the number crunchers sit and calculate every move made by NPCs/Monsters and then gripe about the CRs and make claims like "there's no way that Rogue was between 4th and 6th level, he was way too hard of a challenge, you screwed us."  I feel sorry for those DMs, unless they really are trying to screw the players.</blockquote>