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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tharen the Damned" data-source="post: 3307389" data-attributes="member: 17091">Rules knowledgeSome time ago I read an Interview with Monte Cook. He admitted that he often has to look up modifiers and such things in the rulebooks. If one of the Designers of the 3rd Ed. has to look up rules, nobody has to be ashamed if he does not know all the stuff.What can help though is preparation, lots of preparation and then some.My group has 5 players and their PCs are in level 12-13. The last mayor encounter took us 6 hours to play out (it involved 8 Demons, one 13th lvl. Cleric, one 15th level Sorcerer and an undead temple of Orcus). I usually spend 2 hours of preparation for every hour of playtime for an encounter. For the above encounter I prepared about 10 hours. I look up all the abilities of the monsters, make notes of tactics. Look up the grappling rules (for the 100th time). Look up the spell like abilities and how the monster can use them best. Think what tactics the players will likely use and look up the rules involving these tactics (bullrush or strike an objekt fo example).I think I have a fairly good knowledge of the rules but prparation helps me to run most encounters without mayor stopgaps.</blockquote>