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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 812716" data-attributes="member: 5100">Well, I've used similar DR rules to what's in 3.5E since my 1E days so I can't give you any specific examples from my own history.  The closest I can give is that I threw in a werewolf that required a gold weapon to harm it without telling the players.  Perfectly fair, IMHO.As far as your particular case, I don't think you were in the _wrong_ in this, but I think you could have been more right without giving away too much.  Let me explain.There are two bits of knowledge that the player seemed to be assuming.1) Lycanthropes require silver to hit.  This is probably fair enough.  _Everyone_ in our world knows this, so it's likely that the adventuring types in a fantasy setting would know it.2) Anyone with the Magic Weapon spell is likely to know that part of its properties include overriding the need for silver, etc. weapons.  That's going to vary from setting to setting, but it is fair for a player to assume. When the player kept reminding you about the Magic Weapon, it might have been worth a quick aside to him asking him, "You keep saying that.  Maybe I'm missing something.  Why, exactly, did your character cast that spell?"No doubt, he would have responded with something like, "Because a magic weapon can hit things that need silver weapons to hit them."You respond, "That's not common knowledge.  Your character wouldn't _know_ that, but I can see where it makes sense that he would have tried it.  I think the best bet for your character would be to watch how his hypothesis plays out."What this approach would have done is to clarify what knowledge the characters could reasonably act upon without "spilling the beans", as it were.As far as the actual rules change goes, I see nothing wrong with it in the least.  The only problem is the assumptions the players made.</blockquote>

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