Before Most of Us Forget 3e Oddities...

[Whimsical]

Never happens to me. Mainly because I'm the kind of rules lawyer who's often reminding the DM, "Hey, did you forget Rule A, Clause B, and exception C, all of which combine to hose our PCs?" It's damn good for my DMs, of course, but hell on my group.

And that's why I'm the Lawful Good Rules Lawyer for my group.

 

[hong]

I have a fragment of gamer goofiness to get off my chest. I'm playing in a game under a good DM; I'll use Frank as his codename. I'll use Young Skywalker as my codename because I have been called that before. During a recent session, my character died which was alright because I never really got into him anyway. So I roll up stats and decide to go sorcerer. I've never been a fan of familiars, so I say to Frank:

Young Skywalker: There's a sorcerer option from a splatbook called Metamagic Specialist. It allows a sorcerer to permanently trade his ability to summon a familiar in exchange for using metamagic feats like other casters do.

Frank: *Gives Young Skywalker a quizzical look*

Young Skwalker: You know how normally spontaneously casters have to use a full round action to apply a metamagic feat to a spell?

Frank: No, I didn't know that.

*Mementary pause; everyone at the table is suddenly watching our conversation and the glint in Frank's eyes.*

Frank: Yeah, sure you can have Metamagic Specialist. You know me, anything to make my players happy!

Young Skywalker: *Note to self: SHUT UP.*

Did a large sweatdrop appear at any point in this conversation? It totally should have.

 

[Wolfspider]

Well, at least now you know that it doesn't pay to be frank with Frank.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

One of my players last session reminded me that Elementals are immune to Critical Hits, just after he'd rolled 3x damage for his Greataxe. He slapped himself in the head as soon as he said it though!

I probably would have remembered that they were immune later and been annoyed that I had forgotten about them being crit-immune. It's nice to have honest players like that though. I also didn't feel too bad for him as his hit still "killed" the Elemental that he hit.

In a nice bit of karma he rolled a confirmed crit on an Ogre in the very next combat.

Olaf the Stout