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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5617119" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>Now before I reply, I want to make it clear that I understand that I do not know you and your group and my statements are based off of nothing more than assumptions that I came to due to what you have said. So I'm not trying to judge you or your players/DM. I'm just trying to point out some things that I feel you are not looking at yourself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your DM is doing this though when he stated that your powers were not working on the NPC. I understand you had a problem with him doing that. But, you cannot expect the DM to <strong>not</strong> do that while you and your players <strong>are</strong> doing it. It works both ways. </p><p></p><p>If you think a DM can't just have things happen because he "says so", then as a player, you cannot have things happen because you "say so". You admit to having broken PCs, it sounds like it was your idea to have the Negative Energy Plane in your body. It sounds like most of your crazy abilities are not rules taken from the books and are things you came up with. Which means, they are features you say your PC has because "you said so". It doesn't matter if your DM allowed you to have those features; they are still features that exist only because you say so.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, you cannot expect the DM to run powerful NPCs by the rules if your characters are not being run by the rules themselves. If you want to play this campaign, you're simply going to have to let the DM do whatever he wants and not complain about "weird" things happening when <strong>you</strong> get to do weird things all the time. </p><p></p><p></p><p>From what I can tell, you are not letting the DM play the world. You seem to have an expectation on what <em>should</em> happen in the world. It seems like you already have some sort of script in your head on how things should work out for your PC (control planes/worlds, then hide from gods while you lay havoc on others, then you will encounter gods only when you are more powerful and ready to do so yourself). </p><p></p><p>Even though you claim that gods are a threat to you, I have a very strong feeling that no matter what this DM does, anything that actually does threaten your PC will cause you to cry foul and complain that the DM is cheating or something (even though the players are allowed to cheat by using these made up features).</p><p></p><p>As someone mentioned already, anything you can do, the NPCs can do. If you have some way to hide from gods, there are gods that will have some way to find out about you & your actions. I'm sure if someone found out about your evil deeds and attempted to stop you before you expected to be confronted, you would just complain about it since it is not going to your script. That's just my assumption based on what I'm getting from your posts and attitude towards this campaign. I mean nothing bad by it.</p><p></p><p>My opinion about this whole campaign, I say, if you want to play in it, then sit back and enjoy the ride. Let the DM do whatever he wants to do, and you just react to it. There really isn't anything to complain about because this campaign is broken from the start. So you guys are basically saying, "screw the rules and logic, let's just do some cool & crazy stuff." You created your character willy-nilly, so just let the DM run his NPCs willy-nilly. Otherwise, if you are not ok with that, then you guys will never be happy with this campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 5617119, member: 18701"] Now before I reply, I want to make it clear that I understand that I do not know you and your group and my statements are based off of nothing more than assumptions that I came to due to what you have said. So I'm not trying to judge you or your players/DM. I'm just trying to point out some things that I feel you are not looking at yourself. Your DM is doing this though when he stated that your powers were not working on the NPC. I understand you had a problem with him doing that. But, you cannot expect the DM to [B]not[/B] do that while you and your players [B]are[/B] doing it. It works both ways. If you think a DM can't just have things happen because he "says so", then as a player, you cannot have things happen because you "say so". You admit to having broken PCs, it sounds like it was your idea to have the Negative Energy Plane in your body. It sounds like most of your crazy abilities are not rules taken from the books and are things you came up with. Which means, they are features you say your PC has because "you said so". It doesn't matter if your DM allowed you to have those features; they are still features that exist only because you say so. Therefore, you cannot expect the DM to run powerful NPCs by the rules if your characters are not being run by the rules themselves. If you want to play this campaign, you're simply going to have to let the DM do whatever he wants and not complain about "weird" things happening when [B]you[/B] get to do weird things all the time. From what I can tell, you are not letting the DM play the world. You seem to have an expectation on what [I]should[/I] happen in the world. It seems like you already have some sort of script in your head on how things should work out for your PC (control planes/worlds, then hide from gods while you lay havoc on others, then you will encounter gods only when you are more powerful and ready to do so yourself). Even though you claim that gods are a threat to you, I have a very strong feeling that no matter what this DM does, anything that actually does threaten your PC will cause you to cry foul and complain that the DM is cheating or something (even though the players are allowed to cheat by using these made up features). As someone mentioned already, anything you can do, the NPCs can do. If you have some way to hide from gods, there are gods that will have some way to find out about you & your actions. I'm sure if someone found out about your evil deeds and attempted to stop you before you expected to be confronted, you would just complain about it since it is not going to your script. That's just my assumption based on what I'm getting from your posts and attitude towards this campaign. I mean nothing bad by it. My opinion about this whole campaign, I say, if you want to play in it, then sit back and enjoy the ride. Let the DM do whatever he wants to do, and you just react to it. There really isn't anything to complain about because this campaign is broken from the start. So you guys are basically saying, "screw the rules and logic, let's just do some cool & crazy stuff." You created your character willy-nilly, so just let the DM run his NPCs willy-nilly. Otherwise, if you are not ok with that, then you guys will never be happy with this campaign. [/QUOTE]
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