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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 1316480" data-attributes="member: 277">Campaigns destroyed by catering to whims…Campaigns destroyed by catering to whims…Ok in another thread….Evil Eli……I will damned if I let a group of RPG players tell what my campaign (That I wrote and run) should and should not be![...]Catering to the players whims and wants will eventually ruining any half way decent campaign and I speak from experince! Interesting. Care to tell the story (perhaps in its own thread)? My experience and preferences tend toward the polar opposite.. . . . . . . – EricOk Eric here is a few reasons I have the core or door policy. Or will gladly accept bribes of books for my collection. The evil mage who no one knew was evil. Player wanted to use the Complete Elf book. He gave me photo copies of what he said was all the necessary info.  Forgetting the max stat page. So he is running around with an elf with the best int in the party a 19. And that was just the beginning. This became one player we never called if we were gaming.The Power up Paladin player. I forget the splat book but he loaned the book to me 3 days before the game. I was not able to cover all and told him so. Now one of my house rules is a new character has full normal gear and 3 CLW potions. All other magic depends on the adventure. The paladin automatically gets full field plate AC 1 in second Ac 19 in third.  Spells at second level. Still no problem. He levels up to third and automatically summons a +5 holy avenger. In the middle of combat.  He didn’t think I should be mad because it was listed in the splat book. Forgetting they are in a poor dunk town. Hundreds of miles away from his temple. And the other paladins imc were happy to get their holy avengers at seventh level.The magic missle machine gun mage. Think of the mac ten with a magic missle wand in the clip. No problem because the other four dms allow it. Not one mention the drawback. So the pcs hoping in and out of worlds. In one campaign they are slaying dragons at fifth level. My campaign was not set up for it. Oh the drawback I discovered while under a different dm. The percentage chance of backfire is equal to the number of missles shot off 0-20.  This was how many months of them mowing down monsters imc. Honest I DMed that module but don’t remember it all that well…  too many times in my early years.Phasers and light sabers should be solar powered. I created my own S3 module and originally was going to have the power packs run out.</blockquote>

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