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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 5936365" data-attributes="member: 203"><p>About halfway through my second 3E campaign and nearing a burnout on DMing I got some advice I will never forget and live by to this day;</p><p></p><p>Rules are for players.</p><p></p><p>I know at first this seems scoff worthy but the more I thought about the more I realized that some DMs can get a lot of mileage out of this. It boils down to just what you are describing - the NPCs, monsters even things like spells (as long as you have a plausible clause to say why what the NPC is doing is not something the PCs can do) - don't have to be 100% accurate - hell they don't even have to be 100% <em>finished</em>. As long as the thing in question has enough going for it to work at the game table it is good to go in my book. Don't ever ask to see that sorcerer's spell list though - there's only the 4 spells on it that he got off before you killed him! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 5936365, member: 203"] About halfway through my second 3E campaign and nearing a burnout on DMing I got some advice I will never forget and live by to this day; Rules are for players. I know at first this seems scoff worthy but the more I thought about the more I realized that some DMs can get a lot of mileage out of this. It boils down to just what you are describing - the NPCs, monsters even things like spells (as long as you have a plausible clause to say why what the NPC is doing is not something the PCs can do) - don't have to be 100% accurate - hell they don't even have to be 100% [i]finished[/i]. As long as the thing in question has enough going for it to work at the game table it is good to go in my book. Don't ever ask to see that sorcerer's spell list though - there's only the 4 spells on it that he got off before you killed him! ;) [/QUOTE]
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