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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5142100" data-attributes="member: 35909">Well, there certainly are a lot of bad houserules, or at least ones I find distasteful.  As a player, you can't help but cringe at the word houserule, because IME as a player, the vast majority of the time said houserule will not be for your party's benefit, or if it is, in such a stupid way that it's still annoying (like a DM who thinks casters need MORE help to be awesome).Any houserules to "increase randomness" in combat are a sure-fire warning sign of "this game is not for you!"  to me.  Most such rules end up revolving around more deadly or long-term debilitating crits and/or importing weapon fumble tables.  The latter being one of the most abominable ideas to ever be conceived by the likes of man.On these boards, there's one particular person who posts regularly in the houserules forum who I swear...I completely and utterly disagree with him/her 98% of the time.  Obviously not going to say who that person is, but I generally just try to avoid his/her posts whenever possible and hope that groups I could potentially end up joining down the road aren't influenced by him/her.For my own houserules...I admit it gets to the point at times where I have such exacting or specific modifications to the rules that it is literally impossible to recall with memory, and the best I can muster as the DM is, "I'm pretty sure I had a houserule that pertains to that, give me a second to check."  I suppose that's pretty bad, huh?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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