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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capellan" data-source="post: 1397364" data-attributes="member: 6294">I see there as being three broad categories of house rules:  Nerf, Buff and Genre.Nerf House Rules are indeed designed to do just that - reduce the (perceived) excessive power of a specific spell or ability (commonly used for 3e harm, haste etc).Buff House Rules do the opposite: boost an ability or class that is seen as too weak.  Common 3e examples were giving Fighters intimidate as a class skill, increasing Bards to 6 skill points, and the ubiquitous alt.ranger.Genre House Rules are included to achieve a certain feel.  Adding action points to standard D&D to increase the 'cinematic' feel, changing the XP rewards to slow advancement for a grim'n'gritty game, or making your own rules for black powder guns, cannons and explosives are all genre-based house rules.Personally, as a player, I am fine with house rules - regardless of type - as long as they are clearly stated in up-front by the DM.  Finding out just as you're about to use the ability in question is not much fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>