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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5843556" data-attributes="member: 18701">A bit of advice (and others may disagree with me), but I suggest that you not worry about what the DM is doing behind the scenes. Especially when it comes to how his monsters and NPCs work. Not every DM is going to run NPCs by the book. A lot of DMs will make up stats as they go and never have the NPC stats written on paper. I'm sure most DMs don't even prepare a spell list. They just use whatever spell works for the occasion.Who cares if a door becomes stuck. Figure out how to overcome that obstacle. Just go with the flow and deal with the situation as it comes up. If you need to, ask the DM, &quot;how come everything that happens works against us, like the weak ladder or stuck door, but nothing like this ever happens in our favor?&quot; A good DM needs to remember that there should be a good balance. You need to reward the PCs as often as you screw them. He may just not be aware of what he is doing.It also doesn't matter if a monster has an extra feat or two. As a player, you should not concern yourself with &quot;what is fair&quot; or the CR of a monster. The game world shouldn't be fair. An NPC tweak here &amp; there is not a game breaker unless the DM change can have a drastic affect. There could be story reasons for why a tweak needs to happen and the DM may think it enhances the fun (even if it is just for for his own enjoyment). From a game perspective, all that you should care about is whether his world is being unfair often enough that you don't enjoy playing in it. If you don't enjoy it, don't play it.Questioning these type of things will just cause you to resent the game and the DM and suck out any sort of fun you might have. Either enjoy the game, or stop playing it. Too many players stick around and complain until all hell breaks loose. Just like he can be a bad DM, you can be a bad player.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 5843556, member: 18701"] A bit of advice (and others may disagree with me), but I suggest that you not worry about what the DM is doing behind the scenes. Especially when it comes to how his monsters and NPCs work. Not every DM is going to run NPCs by the book. A lot of DMs will make up stats as they go and never have the NPC stats written on paper. I'm sure most DMs don't even prepare a spell list. They just use whatever spell works for the occasion. Who cares if a door becomes stuck. Figure out how to overcome that obstacle. Just go with the flow and deal with the situation as it comes up. If you need to, ask the DM, "how come everything that happens works against us, like the weak ladder or stuck door, but nothing like this ever happens in our favor?" A good DM needs to remember that there should be a good balance. You need to reward the PCs as often as you screw them. He may just not be aware of what he is doing. It also doesn't matter if a monster has an extra feat or two. As a player, you should not concern yourself with "what is fair" or the CR of a monster. The game world shouldn't be fair. An NPC tweak here & there is not a game breaker unless the DM change can have a drastic affect. There could be story reasons for why a tweak needs to happen and the DM may think it enhances the fun (even if it is just for for his own enjoyment). From a game perspective, all that you should care about is whether his world is being unfair often enough that you don't enjoy playing in it. If you don't enjoy it, don't play it. Questioning these type of things will just cause you to resent the game and the DM and suck out any sort of fun you might have. Either enjoy the game, or stop playing it. Too many players stick around and complain until all hell breaks loose. Just like he can be a bad DM, you can be a bad player. [/QUOTE]

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