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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Illirion" data-source="post: 3307288" data-attributes="member: 38310">I'm not very good with the rules. But I am probably the person with the best knowledge of the rules in our group. That may change now that we're having a new player come over next session, but anyway, I don't think that my lack of rules knnowledge make me a worse DM. It merely means I have to perpare more for each session and my players generally face monsters and stuff that doesn't require me to memorize a whole lot. For the most recent BBEG in our game, I went overboard and made a vampire caster! I even kept it easy for myself and made him a sorcerer, but as in your situation, I wasn't really able to make it work. I kept forgetting effects and stuff I should have used. Particularly his ability to summon wolves and to dominate others (that would have made the whole thing a lot more challenging). But afterwards, my players defeated him by the use of mirrors and driving him into a corner. The vampire was forced to evaporate and return to the coffin and then they quickly went searching for the coffin and destroyed it. They said it was the best encounter they ever had and it was the best campaign moment ever :\ .So my advice: Don't beat yourself up about a lack of rules knowledge, just use the stuff that you DO know to it's full extent.Cheers,Illirion.</blockquote>