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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifelhein" data-source="post: 1141094" data-attributes="member: 14129">Wow, got away for some hours and got to read about 4 pages or so... and so much flaming, not open but flaming. I hereby state that I don't mean to offend or say what should be true about anything, everything here written states my opinion, my thoughts or just my reality explanations. I think there many possible routes to fixate what would be allowed in game, only WotC would be one, ot popular around here though, I, for one, am oen to anything, published or internet browsed, or home made, but nothing comes in before I read it, check its implications in the game and make sure it fits, why? My reasons are simple:1. Whatever applies to the PCs apply to NPCs, nothing should be a DM against Players. 2. Any material can be problematic in a campaign, it depends on what kind of game you play, what you excpect to have and so on and so forth. 3. I want to be clear on what can be used, any book allowed are so stated to the players, monster books are exception, my monsters can be anywhere and do whatever I want, why? Because surprise rocks, but I don't do it to kill everyone, spoil fun or the like, I do it to improve fun, make everyone keep themselves on their toes and also give a sense of mistery and danger. 4. Whatever we don't have acess to cannot be used, your word is good, but unless you present where or write it up for everyone to see it is gonna be completely rejected. 5. I DM because I want, the game is set up as I have thought and while I do want we to create the story together, I also want to be able to use what is appropriate and make you know what can be used beforehand. Now that i made myself clear, I think your group stated that they would not want to do such a think, ryard, so they trusted that WotC would be a good reliable source enough that it would not make a problem. If not the case, please correct me, just be polite with it ok. Many people around here were amazed and so on, the reason I am and I think most are is because many material from other publishers actually are more playtested and careful with balance and rules than WotC has been with some products or piece of it. I, for one, am the greatest source of books for my group, most of them don't even own the PHB, and as I am gonna use 3.5 for a nearly coming game no one will have it, not even me... As far as I can say is that I advise you to debate to your group, if you see the need to, and try to show them that 3rd party publishers don't necessarily mean other rules to be aware of, I am happy that I am clear on what is supposed to be used as guidelines... As for my way of handling the game, I also think that everything is subject to consensus, except when we are in middle of a session, because we are there to have fun and whenever doubt arises, and it does for many times, I say how we are handling things for that time, after session we discuss and state how it is gonna be from that point on. Wargame, Storytelling, Roleplaying, whatever your game is I just hope you enjoy it, and I mean this to everyone, not ryard only, because rpg is everything about fun and being the *my point of view rules* type of DM, or the *you better make everything straight out of the book* type of player is something that truly spolis my fun. Anyway, I hate metagame and tend to penalize it, there is no standard troll, I can rule that instead of fire they are vulnerable to ice, but if you are trtuly playing a role-playing-game, than it shouldn't be a problem, after all, you know, but your character doesn't, so no ire unless you justify for your self and everyone else, not just me, why you would use it... Okay, my opinions, my thoughts, my understanding of said things and my way of handling things.</blockquote>

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