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<blockquote data-quote="RoughCoronet0" data-source="post: 8595274" data-attributes="member: 7031665"><p>I’ve had a bad experience with this. When one of my group’s DM had nerfed someone’s class last minute, it’s became the first of many impulse nerfs during the campaign they did to the point where it becomes obvious that the DM was trying to prevent us from doing anything that might “break” the flow of their story.</p><p></p><p>The breaking point was when an argument broke out after the DM told one of the players they couldn’t do something (I forget the actual action they were trying to take), then another player jumped in reminding the DM that they had a similar argument with them when the roles were reversed, but the current DM (then player) was at that time arguing to do the action. That when the game became unsalvageable as it became clear that the DM just didn’t trust any of us to play their game “the correct way”.</p><p></p><p>Now I’m wary of any such things. If we have a session 0 and a DM has a list of banned or tweaked races, classes and other things, I’m ok with that. But if a DM says nothing and then bans or nerfs something last minute, I’m not ok with that and that’s a big red flag telling me to get out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoughCoronet0, post: 8595274, member: 7031665"] I’ve had a bad experience with this. When one of my group’s DM had nerfed someone’s class last minute, it’s became the first of many impulse nerfs during the campaign they did to the point where it becomes obvious that the DM was trying to prevent us from doing anything that might “break” the flow of their story. The breaking point was when an argument broke out after the DM told one of the players they couldn’t do something (I forget the actual action they were trying to take), then another player jumped in reminding the DM that they had a similar argument with them when the roles were reversed, but the current DM (then player) was at that time arguing to do the action. That when the game became unsalvageable as it became clear that the DM just didn’t trust any of us to play their game “the correct way”. Now I’m wary of any such things. If we have a session 0 and a DM has a list of banned or tweaked races, classes and other things, I’m ok with that. But if a DM says nothing and then bans or nerfs something last minute, I’m not ok with that and that’s a big red flag telling me to get out. [/QUOTE]
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