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<blockquote data-quote="Beard in the Sky" data-source="post: 1395411" data-attributes="member: 16877">The DM should never &quot;go out of his way&quot;; that is my whole point... that is not his job. You can make all kind of &quot;in certain sorts of campaign&quot; sorts of statements, but I think everyone understands we are speaking of the core game as it should be assumed by the core books.&nbsp; Creamsteak made my argument so completely that I really have nothing else to add. As for the other; you are implying (actually more than implying) that I &quot;punished&quot; the player &quot;on a whim&quot;...yes it is insulting. Why? Because you have NO IDEA what went on and you are filling in 99 of the 100 blanks left in the story with suppositions. At any rate, I was running the Adventure Path modules and I ran them (at least in regards to equipment) right out of the books, so I guess you could argue that Bruce Cordell and Skip Williams don't like my friend either. DMs are under no obligation to see that every choice a player makes feat-wise or otherwise is a good choice. By that logic, why even HAVE a choice. Why is Weapon Focus optional if there is no gamble involved in taking it... every fighter uses a weapon, why would some fighters choose NOT to focus in a particular weapon? Most would take weapon focus AFTER they found a weapon of appropriate power to justify it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beard in the Sky, post: 1395411, member: 16877"] The DM should never "go out of his way"; that is my whole point... that is not his job. You can make all kind of "in certain sorts of campaign" sorts of statements, but I think everyone understands we are speaking of the core game as it should be assumed by the core books. Creamsteak made my argument so completely that I really have nothing else to add. As for the other; you are implying (actually more than implying) that I "punished" the player "on a whim"...yes it is insulting. Why? Because you have NO IDEA what went on and you are filling in 99 of the 100 blanks left in the story with suppositions. At any rate, I was running the Adventure Path modules and I ran them (at least in regards to equipment) right out of the books, so I guess you could argue that Bruce Cordell and Skip Williams don't like my friend either. DMs are under no obligation to see that every choice a player makes feat-wise or otherwise is a good choice. By that logic, why even HAVE a choice. Why is Weapon Focus optional if there is no gamble involved in taking it... every fighter uses a weapon, why would some fighters choose NOT to focus in a particular weapon? Most would take weapon focus AFTER they found a weapon of appropriate power to justify it. [/QUOTE]

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