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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6678811" data-attributes="member: 2011">Maybe.I just like the game to be consistent. I want the gaze attack of the Medusa to not reflect off the mirror my PC is holding to protect myself and zap my PC in the face, and I don't want the Beholder gaze attacks to work differently.I want super intelligent monsters to use the best tactics based on their abilities and the terrain normally found in a given location, I don't just throw stuff into a game "cause it's cool". Your definition of cool might not be the same as my definition of cool.But mainly, just because a DM or players comes up with an idea does not necessarily make it a good idea. Imagination is all nice and well, but there should still be a framework of continuity and consistency that all of the players at the table can wrap their heads around.By using words like "unfortunate" and phrases like "not very compatible with a game based on imagination", you seem to be arrogantly saying that "my way of gaming is subpar". You are entitled to that POV, but I suspect that laughs and memories at my table last just as long as they do at yours. There are more ways to make adventures memorable than just pulling weird stuff out of the DM's butt (including Beholders blowing themselves up with their own eye rays as if they had the intelligence of Zombies) and then 12 gaming sessions later when players try to bounce a spell off a mirror, the DM no longer remembers the on the fly mechanics that he used, and a DM at a different gaming table doesn't even allow it at all because that's not how spells normally work in D&D.</blockquote>

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