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I hope the three core rulebooks have a "DM's clause".
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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3730908" data-attributes="member: 40961"><p>Then he darn well have better said something about it before I started playing.</p><p></p><p>Failure to note house rules and important divergences from the standard assumptions of D&D <em>prior to the beginning of gaming</em> automatically makes you a bad DM. No exceptions.</p><p></p><p>He also had better have come up with some kind of alternate use for money, or eliminated high wealth, and he needs some alternative to the balancing effect that sale of magic items is assumed to have in D&D. And if he hasn't thought up that, then he's got no business having house rules. He's not good enough to have house rules, his campaign is going to be broken, and I'm going to be angry that I got suckered into wasting my time.</p><p></p><p>Bah. I've had great campaigns where the DM had significant house rules. I've never had a great campaign with the sort of DM who loudly proclaims that he's the god of gaming and that we all have no rights but what he grants us. Even if technically true, the sorts of people who shout it from the rooftops rarely use that power well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 3730908, member: 40961"] Then he darn well have better said something about it before I started playing. Failure to note house rules and important divergences from the standard assumptions of D&D [I]prior to the beginning of gaming[/I] automatically makes you a bad DM. No exceptions. He also had better have come up with some kind of alternate use for money, or eliminated high wealth, and he needs some alternative to the balancing effect that sale of magic items is assumed to have in D&D. And if he hasn't thought up that, then he's got no business having house rules. He's not good enough to have house rules, his campaign is going to be broken, and I'm going to be angry that I got suckered into wasting my time. Bah. I've had great campaigns where the DM had significant house rules. I've never had a great campaign with the sort of DM who loudly proclaims that he's the god of gaming and that we all have no rights but what he grants us. Even if technically true, the sorts of people who shout it from the rooftops rarely use that power well. [/QUOTE]
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I hope the three core rulebooks have a "DM's clause".
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