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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 4931805" data-attributes="member: 82504">huh.... My point was that the DM forgetting some cool combo a player character has... he shouldnt be planning for it... the NPC's would not realistically have the same overwhelming knowledge about the PC's that the DM does. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />But realism isnt even the question...The paladin murmurs over his weapon and it bursts forth with energies leaking from the astral sea... eladrin appear and disappear bending through space time... the bard seeing into the past and future to guide him and his allies next attack ... the Warlock draws streams of energy from the death of his enemies. As far player character potency is concerned.... as far as I am concerned the aforementioned heros "verge" on legendary.. and are robinhoods and king arthurs of there universe.ooops the guy stood up? fast.?.. just doesn't impress or threaten my sense of game reality any at all... and DM's shouldnt freak out about it or expect things to flow exactly the way expected (the game gets complex I will miss those combos and expect to).Let's say I didn't normally like the boots which prevent characters being pushed around because I like the mobility of the D&D combat system... a reasonable thought ... so when the player put's it on his wish list I ask him to make a religion check or history check... I end up telling him a childhood story about an earth god who couldn't be moved.... we make interesting quests out of it... ok I end up changing my mind having a character who gains an allegiance to an earth god ... etc the boots become a part of the story... when he stands up to the monster and the ground cracks around his feat... I nod my head saying that's right .... you do.</blockquote>

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