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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5615348" data-attributes="member: 32740">It shouldn't need to be said, but the rules don't cover everything.  The rules have FAR more significance as limitations for the players than they do as limitations for the DM.  DM's are indeed allowed to invent stuff that the players and PC's do not have access to nor are ever allowed to use.  Players have a reasonable expectation that rules can and will be enforced as regards THEIR characters, they do not have the same reasonable expectation that NPC's will at all times and in all ways will be similarly limited.  Furthermore, DM's should not expect that players must never be allowed to divert from the rules. The trust between DM and players is that the DM will not screw them over just because he can; when he goes outside the written rules (or allows the players to) that he has proper motivations for doing so, not that he never will do so. Still, it's clear that if a DM wants NPC's to be giving deathbed clues and speeches without the players inflicting cures, etc. upon him then he should be instituting rules or at least formal exceptions and making players aware of them BEFORE they come up.  Either that or you'd best be willing to roll with the punches as the players throw them without prompting them to mutiny with seemingly arbitary, thoughtless fiats.</blockquote>