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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harshax" data-source="post: 4135441" data-attributes="member: 61534">I misread this the first time, and had a flashback of the three of us in high school physically performing combat moves, and how they were totally plausible within the 1 minute round.  We'd argue for for hours. This was before UA, when two-weapon fighting was a tiny paragraph in the DMG. (Back then, the DMG was kinda like a bible for the irreligious. You kept coming back to those favorite yellowing pages, but huge tracks were pristine white from lack of sunlight or pizza stained fingers)Sometimes I think we got together for the arguments, not the games.  :\ Good times. good times.The rules have gotten a lot better, when it comes to adjudicating a situation that the rules don't handle specifically.  That said, however, players have gotten a lot more meta-gamey at the table because the guidelines for handling ad hoc situations is transparent through the DM Screen.  We've trade the situation where a DM would lean back in his chair and stair thoughtfully at the ceiling for a few minutes before making his call to players leaning back in the chair and extrapolating the logical skill or ability score to use for a given action, and sometimes openly discussing it as if it is a foregone conclusion how to DM should rule.  Neither is really an ideal scenario.</blockquote>