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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 1140271" data-attributes="member: 2673">I'm with you as far as *character* abilities go.  If you want to house-rule a spell, hey that's cool.  Just let me know ahead of time.  Players should know what their characters can do.  But that does not apply to the DM.  I can't imagine tying his hands so that any new rules have to be approved by the players given the modular nature of 3e.  What if my new villians are a group from a foriegn land with exotic fighting techniques (expressed as a feat chain or PrC)?  Is that fair game?  What if instead of making it up I snag it from a Mongoose book or something?Yeah, I'm human.  And if I make mistakes I'll make it up to you somehow.  These references to the ELH are irrelevent.  I don't play that crazy verison, just regular D&D <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />.  I can't believe this is a true statement.  How many hours a week to you work on things for your game as a player?  I might spend an hour recopying my sheet, or fleshing out some background, or looking up some abilities.  Maybe.  Most times, the player just shows up with his dice and games.  The DM on the other hand spends hours of his free time constructing an adventure, working on NPCs, planning out his plot arc, contemplating rules issues, and more often than not works on player/player conflicts.I believe the average for a DM is one hour of prep for every hour of play.  Even if you run modules, you need to read through them, make notes, and tweak it to your preferences.  I even find modules more time consuming than doing it from scratch.  Are you honestly claiming that you spend this much time getting ready for a game?And I'm not trying to say that my way is the right one, and others are wrong.  I'm just having a discussion, trying to figure out where graymarch and ryard are coming from.</blockquote>

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