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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8394804" data-attributes="member: 6801228">1) If they say &quot;we&quot; to mean &quot;You (plural)&quot; then they need to brush up on their language skills. I won't say English, because I do believe literally every spoken language differentiates between these two pronoun forms. 1a) Think about that conversation for a moment. &quot;You all will not be using any homebrew crit rules&quot; immediately begs the question &quot;Wait, what rules will you be using then?&quot;. And, can you really imagine a staying at a table to play where the DM says &quot;Whichever rules I feel like using at the time.&quot; That isn't a red flag, it is a blaring siren that this person is not going to be running a game I want any part of. Because it is a very clear sign that the DM isn't going to be consistent, and therefore we can never predict anything.I like how agreeing to abide by the same rules the other people of the table are playing by is &quot;being silly&quot; and &quot;a foolish reason&quot;. But, I agree, a DM could add that ability. Personally, I feel like if you do something like that, giving some foreshadowing is best, to differentiate a pre-planned ability from a random whimsy the DM had. And actually, they wouldn't even need to add a &quot;unique&quot; thing. They just need to add Brutal Critical or the Half-Orc racial ability. Both increase critical damage, and combined they'd amount to a x4 damage. And do you know what I find great about that? Reflavoring and reskinning and all that is a fairly trivial thing. Would anyone really blink if you told them that you reskinned a enemy from a Half-Orc Barbarian? Seems like a rather trivial thing, after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8394804, member: 6801228"] 1) If they say "we" to mean "You (plural)" then they need to brush up on their language skills. I won't say English, because I do believe literally every spoken language differentiates between these two pronoun forms. 1a) Think about that conversation for a moment. "You all will not be using any homebrew crit rules" immediately begs the question "Wait, what rules will you be using then?". And, can you really imagine a staying at a table to play where the DM says "Whichever rules I feel like using at the time." That isn't a red flag, it is a blaring siren that this person is not going to be running a game I want any part of. Because it is a very clear sign that the DM isn't going to be consistent, and therefore we can never predict anything. I like how agreeing to abide by the same rules the other people of the table are playing by is "being silly" and "a foolish reason". But, I agree, a DM could add that ability. Personally, I feel like if you do something like that, giving some foreshadowing is best, to differentiate a pre-planned ability from a random whimsy the DM had. And actually, they wouldn't even need to add a "unique" thing. They just need to add Brutal Critical or the Half-Orc racial ability. Both increase critical damage, and combined they'd amount to a x4 damage. And do you know what I find great about that? Reflavoring and reskinning and all that is a fairly trivial thing. Would anyone really blink if you told them that you reskinned a enemy from a Half-Orc Barbarian? Seems like a rather trivial thing, after all. [/QUOTE]

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