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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkLord Of DForce" data-source="post: 5260794" data-attributes="member: 85416">I've never DM'ed, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. This is definitely a players perspective.1. Don't be stingy with rewards - just follow the recommended parcels and guidelines for drops. Don't disallow items in the game without a very good reason. I would not allow boons, artifacts, or wondrous items except as rewards for major endeavors.2. Don't metagame - in other words, if one of your players gets something like Repulsive armor, don't have every creature in every encounter from that point on, have a reach of 2.  Or all the undead in your games are NOT vulnerable to Radiant damage because your Paladin and Holy Avenger can deal Radiant damage.3. When something comes up (and it will), don't change the Rules, change your story! That sounds odd, but let me give you an example - in one of our recent sessions, a thief who had stolen a valuable book from Everlund, was found dead at the entrance to a cave leading to the Tomb Of Horrors (our DM has been dying to start this with our level14 chars). So we said we'd have my religion trained Avenger use a Speak with Dead scroll. The DM argued that I couldn't because the DemiLich had eaten the thiefs soul. Not gone, destroyed.  But the description of Speak with Dead clearly states you are talking to the corpse and not the soul.So now, for the rest of our campaign, Speak with Dead will not work on anything that doesn't have a soul there. He changed the rules. What would have been better was if he simply had the corpse disintegrate or had the corpse not reveal anything useful. Later, in e-mail, he told us he did that to move things along faster, and not have the thief reveal anything. It could have been handled better though, IMHO - *not* by changing the rules.4. Which brings us to when these events happen - try to look at it from all angles, make a fairly quick decision, and move along with the game. Breaking the flow of your session up to have a 30 minute rule discussion is not the way to go. Have all of your group agree that anything that comes up like that, can be discussed and worked out for future sessions in e-mail (or even a few minutes before the next session starts). I think others in this thread have referred to this practice, and I fully agree. A quick ruling, to keep the game going, and then discuss it later at leisure.Have fun!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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