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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1853711" data-attributes="member: 7240">Let me put another spin on what is going on here:I've recently begun gaming with a bunch of new people. We are all coming from different levels of knowledge and bodies of house-rules. As you've noticed, house rules typically come into being out of a misunderstanding of the actual rules. Maybe it's not the popular theme of female rivalry that you're dealing with. Maybe it's that your wife has shown up the GM and made him feel less than knowledgeable by showing how to create an impressive kind of fighter who has not been previously considered. Often, even when there is equal knowledge of the rules, the male half of the couple is very involved in the making of the partner's character. It may be that both by making a cooler characters and demonstrating a superior knowledge of the rules, your wife is threatening the GM as much or more than his wife.A common GM reaction to a player getting "uppity" is the sort of thing that has just happened -- something that shows who is in authority in an unequivocal way. I have seen people respond this way as a way of giving a social cue to a player than their superior knowledge of rules loopholes will only get them so far. Sometimes such responses have even been directed at me.I think that if the GM has in mind to make this a permanent change, it's probably time to go. I just made a 25 point buy character with an 18 and I can see how little fun the character would be with her Dex knocked down to 14. But it may be that the GM will let her get her 4 points of Dex back once he's re-established, to his satisfaction, his role as alpha-male of rules. If the latter is the case, perhaps you should re-evaluate who is being more petty and immature.</blockquote>

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