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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 2231735" data-attributes="member: 12328">Good luck with the new group, Ace.  I understand part of your frustration.  In my experience, house rules just lead to problems.  I even saw a campaign basically destroyed by them notwithstanding that they were "published" beforehand.  People have different ideas of what D&D "is"--and those different expectations can lead to the game becoming "Difficult & Draining."  My personal pet peeve is when people who don't own or haven't read the books try to tell me how it is.  I may not make the right call every time, but it's not for lack of effort.  I don't use every book published when I run a game, but if I use a book then I have at least read it cover-to-cover once and usually have spent much more time analyzing it.  The analogy I like to use is Monopoly and Free Parking.  The official rules don't allow any money in Free Parking (along with a lot of other things that most people don't know about).  I grew up playing that way, but everyone at the game knew it.  I would certainly be upset if I was the only one at the table who couldn't collect money on Free Parking.  I would probably quit if the "banker" arbitrarily decided to add it or remove it once the game was underway.   The same goes for D&D or any other RPG or game in general.  Imagine a professional sports referee calling a game according to novice rules.  That's another good analogy I've used.  Anyway, best of luck.</blockquote>

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