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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickaxe" data-source="post: 2534046" data-attributes="member: 10812">Actually, variant rules seem perfectly appropriate-- at least those that are actually published in D&D sources, such as the spell roll. Since these are alternatives that are endorsed by the game designers, people should be able to ask about them and discuss them, and the Rules forum seems most appropriate for that. In this sense I'm distinguishing between official variant rules (e.g., spell roll) and true house rules (e.g., "my alt.ranger" or "my mana-based spell system").I do get a little annoyed with the house rules creeping in for two reasons. One is that Andragor's Poster C often chimes in well before anyone takes up the role of Poster B, so Poster A gets no immediate answer, and the thread may suddenly become a debate about whether Poster C's house rule is any good. The second reason is that often Poster C enters the thread by declaring the rule in question to be stupid-dumb, hence the house rule, and thus an even greater risk of a debate that hijacks the thread to the detriment of its original intent. The worst is seeing a thread title on a question who's answer I'd like to know, and which has a promising 39 replies, only to discover that 35+ are off-topic, refer to house rules, or otherwise fail to address the question at hand. (I've since learned my lesson and now realize that threads with less than 10 responses are most likely to have actual answers in them. Or I just look to see if Hypersmurf was the last reply.)--Axe</blockquote>

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