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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bolie" data-source="post: 2365150" data-attributes="member: 8312">I am one of Mythmere's players and we are currently in the process of trying to convince him to keep running his game.  None of us like C&C very much but we all like playing in his game.  Unfortunately for us, he prefers to make up his stuff in C&C for the same reason that many of you like to use C&C as DM.We've run into two main problems:1.  The rules are internally inconsistent.  You can move and attack someone within 30' and charge someone more than 60' away, but can't do anything if they are 45' away.  Many of the spell descriptions are obviously copied from the SRD and not edited or were partially edited.  Polymorph and ray of enfeeblement are two obvious problem spells.2.  The rules are too simple.  We all wanted to customize our characters.  We come up with interesting backgrounds and personalities, but we like to back them up with stats.  We added feats to help with that, but I keep looking at prestige classes and trying to figure out how my character's extreme bookishness will affect the game.  We find ourselves making up rules to cover situations that have rules in D&D.  While we can do that and do it quickl, it makes the game feel more arbitrary.  It's hard to predict what you can do when just about anything out of the ordinary becomes a negotiation between you and the DM rather than a looking up of a rule to apply.While we can hopefully get Mythmere to keep running his game, I'll probably be running a 3.5 game along with his game so we can alternate.  I will try to reign in my mild OCD and make up stat blocks and not worry about detailing everything to death.  There's really nothing wrong with just making stuff up for NPCs.  Of course, too much of that and it becomes arbitrary again.We'll see how it goes.  Maybe we can reconvert Mythmere to 3.5.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  If not, hopefully we can keep playing in his game and use my game to satisfy our detail oriented obsessive sides.Bolie IV</blockquote>

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