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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GregoryOatmeal" data-source="post: 5714883" data-attributes="member: 6667661">I'm not the most rules-savy DM. Frankly I find it unbearable to sit down and read paragraphs of rules. Usually this works for me but in my current game I'm starting to feel like I need to bone up. I just started PF and don't own the core book, Ultimate Combat, Ultimate Magic, etc.My Pathfinder game is comprised of level 5 PCs. Most have a low comprehension of the nuances of the rules which is just fantastic - ideal gamers honestly. The psion, however, owns every player supplement and easily knows more rules than the rest of us combined. Still some of these behaviors are starting to feel fishy. For example:- The psion can teleport in and out of rules, away from monsters, and to higher ground at will. In one instance I gave him bonus damage from jumping and attacking from higher ground. Now he insists on teleporting above monsters and dropping down on them to do extra damage.- The psion claims he can open planar portals (or something) to the astral plane. I said this would ruin the upcoming planescape campaign so he changed it to:- His psion can lift with telekinesis 250 pounds per level and "juggle three NPCs". I happened to catch a glimpse of the 2E Psionics book and saw there that the psionicist could lift 3 pounds per point and got like 8 telekinesis points at level 5. I also couldn't find anything like that in the 3.5 SRD. Does 250 pounds per level seem just insane? I mean 1,250 pounds is like 30 strength. Is anything like that in the Psionics Unleashed supplement?- He claims if he holds his glaive one square in front of him and monsters enter that square he gets an attack of opportunity. Is this actually a rule?? I researched it in the Pathfinder SRD/Core rulebook and couldn't find it.What do you guys think? I don't really want to go toe-to-toe with him in rules-lawyer-fu but I may have to start stopping combat to read paragraphs of rules every time he claims something like that. Even then I'm sure the rule he's hiding from me that prevents him from being so overpowered is going to be like 5 paragraphs away from the paragraph he points me to. And he'll find a way to explain it and then treat me like the parent who said Christmas is cancelled.All of the other players are starting to complain their characters are feeling useless even though they feel like they're on par for their level.</blockquote>

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