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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hatchling Dragon" data-source="post: 95817" data-attributes="member: 580">Ok, a few things weren't quite so clear after-all.  The 'rules lawyering' is acutally encouraged for the 'basics'.  Stuff like being sure monsters are flat-footed if the situation is warrented, or how to Bull Rush, that sorta thing.  I'm apparently the most 'lawyerish' of the group and thus at least semi-officially a 'rules official'.  There's been talk about me over-riding/interrupting him, but we talked that out and I'm following his requests (ask first, ect)His issue with my reading, which again I was doing when I had nothing else to do at the time, was with me learning background info: That Malar's an evil God, the history of Ghostwise Halflings, stuff my character shouldn't know.  Reading rules, or 'crunchy bits', is just fine and encouraged.I acutally don't bring my MM or DMG to sessions, just to avoid peeking at the HD of stuff.  And I don't think I've ever let my knowledge (from DM-based reading, yah that's the reason! <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" /> ) affect my character's reaction.  Example:  Previous session we ended up fighting a Naga, probably Water, in a module he was running from a Dungeon or perhaps an on-line source.  I was reacting totally as if my character was completely ignorant of the beast's capeabilities.  After the session I did open my MM (it was with me) and peeked, then commented to another player "Good lord, I'm a bit shocked we got away, let alone lived!"   He just grinned when he overheard us and said "Nobody got a good look at it, you still don't know what it is."I'm starting to wonder if he's getting more 'n more restrictive with me (that last naga module was run cuz all the water was deeper than I am tall, as he likes to point out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ) becuase he's mad that I have more knowledge of the system than he does.  I'll happily confess he's about 5000% better at DM'ing than I can hope to be, and I hope it's just my ego getting outta hand.  We'll have to see if the restrictions keep piling up or not.I'd never drop out without notice.  If something similar happened again I'd probably just go home.  I literally had nothing to do, and that's quite boring.Hatchling Dragon</blockquote>

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