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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9414467" data-attributes="member: 508">If this had been the first time anything like this had come up, that would have been different - but we've had similar instances where the rules all bent to this DM's advantage - like the anti-magic field around the lich we were fighting once that somehow didn't cause the wall of thorns he was surrounded by (courtesy of our druid) to wink out, once the DM realized the lich's AC made the thorns more of a hindrance to our PCs than to the lich.  Last night, we needed to make a DC 40 Spot check to even see the "ice toad" (I found out what that was this morning, BTW - it was the Jarl's fiendish cohort, a blackguard's equivalent to a familiar), but the frost giantess cleric "automatically" knew that two PCs who had been out of her visual range on the other side of a freezing fog effect, and thus who she wasn't even aware of being in the lair at all, had suddenly dimension doored above and behind her.  He's very inconsistent with his rulings, and he always initially tilts the scales in his direction - but fortunately, he can be reasoned with if you show him where the rule is in print.As for the specifics of the freedom of movement last night, the Jarl was able to move into the freezing fog and move without penalties - we all agreed on that.  Then the druid cast repel wood on the hilt of his greataxe, at which point he had the option (per the spell) of either hanging on or letting go.  By hanging on, the spell moves him 40 feet away from the druid, and with his freedom of movement spell active, the freezing fog wasn't a hindrance to him.  But once he realized that would push him directly into the path of a greater fire elemental, the Jarl chose to let go.(We're playing using 3.5 rules, by the way - I'm not sure if the effects of either spell are any different under 5.0.)In any case, it's all water under the bridge; the players all recognize this is just part of playing with him as the DM.  But we're kind of looking forward to hitting 20th level and bringing this campaign to an end, at which point my son picks the Wednesday night campaign slot back up - a slot he had offered to share with Dan, one week a month, to allow him to get his "3.5 DM feet wet" so to speak, running his own campaign, but which Dan misunderstood as an offer to run a full 20-level campaign all on his own.Johnathan</blockquote>

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