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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 2585353" data-attributes="member: 17596">Yes, I've had this problem. I've got a player who just loves to question my every decision. To be fair, there are times when he's been correct, but it gets a little much at times and it gets in the way of the flow of the game. Here a recent example that just annoyed me:Aboard an airship the party is in combat with several wraiths. One character, flying along side the ship decides to hit the wraiths with a gust of wind spell, hoping to blow the wraiths away from the party to buy some time. Well, I say that wraiths are incorpreal and have no weight so they can't be affected by wind, but I'm countered with the fact that that it's a "magical wind."For me it was simple common sense. You can't blow away wraiths with wind, right? I mean, that's silly. So my player replies, "Yes, but common sense says that you can't freeze (cold) or (burn) wraiths either, but you have a 50% chance to hurt them with magical cold or fire according to the incorpreal definition. So it should be possible for a magical wind to affect wraiths as well." This went on for far too long and, in an effort to keep things moving, I made a classic blunder by giving in. I thought it would be a fairly isolated incident, but since that time I'm constantly having to debate interpretations with this particular player. So, I'm constantly needing a panel of D&D experts to refer to decide which way to go. I've gotten tougher regarding the issue, but it's still a pain in the aasimar. (Sorry, about that. It's late. The PC is an aasimar, though.)</blockquote>

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