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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2241140" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, its my contention that you are wrong, because as a DM you are always under more pressure to rule in favor of your PC's than your NPC's because well, your NPC's don't care when they've been treated unfairly and don't make arguments in thier favor.&nbsp;&nbsp; But, if in your experience its always been true that 'spontaneous house rules' always help the NPC's and not the PC's, then my guess is the real reason you've become a rules lawyer is you've been burned by too many DM's abusing thier authority.Simply put, you've probably encountered a least one DM that is an egotistical maniac and so the idea of a DM with absolute power scares the beejesus out of you.&nbsp; Whereas, I've only heard about these sort of DM's from groups I've been in that said, &quot;Man you should have been here when X was the DM....&quot; and versus funny stories about the abuse they recieved from the DM's pet NPC foils were related. I would refer to you to an earlier point in the thread where I put forth assertion that knowing the rules was an hinderance to many players, because they never tried things because they didn't think that they could be done.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would put forward that a person who had never played D&amp;D before, would run around an oval track and never once worry about the fact that he was breaking the rules because it was obvious to him that people did things like that. And certainly it isn't your contention that realisticly ordinary runners slow down by 50% when going through the gentle curve of a track, is it?&nbsp; Don't you run into any versimilitude issues when the rules are so obviously not equatable with what actually happens in real life?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 2241140, member: 4937"] Well, its my contention that you are wrong, because as a DM you are always under more pressure to rule in favor of your PC's than your NPC's because well, your NPC's don't care when they've been treated unfairly and don't make arguments in thier favor. But, if in your [i]experience[/i] its always been true that 'spontaneous house rules' always help the NPC's and not the PC's, then my guess is the real reason you've become a rules lawyer is you've been burned by too many DM's abusing thier authority. Simply put, you've probably encountered a least one DM that is an egotistical maniac and so the idea of a DM with absolute power scares the beejesus out of you. Whereas, I've only heard about these sort of DM's from groups I've been in that said, "Man you should have been here when X was the DM...." and versus funny stories about the abuse they recieved from the DM's pet NPC foils were related. I would refer to you to an earlier point in the thread where I put forth assertion that knowing the rules was an hinderance to many players, because they never tried things because they didn't think that they could be done. I would put forward that a person who had never played D&D before, would run around an oval track and never once worry about the fact that he was breaking the rules because it was obvious to him that people did things like that. And certainly it isn't your contention that realisticly ordinary runners slow down by 50% when going through the gentle curve of a track, is it? Don't you run into [i]any[/i] versimilitude issues when the rules are so obviously not equatable with what actually happens in real life? [/QUOTE]

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