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Maxwell's Silver Hammer: On Spells, Design, and the feeling of Sameyness in 5e
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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 7917897" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>My PCs won't do what I expect or can prepare for reasonably and in detail and I like it that way. Preparing for everything is impossible.</p><p></p><p>I've never needed to look up spells I wasn't prepared to use as DM because back when I used published modules, if the module half-assed things by not writing out the spells that the monsters (including the mages) had) I would go and put in the legwork myself by rewriting the stat blocks as part of my game preparation.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>On the contrary. The only point of "agree to disagree" is that we can agree that what you consider expected for DMs is something I would consider myself to have failed <em>miserably </em>as a DM if I ever needed to do - and am consequently am unimpressed when a DM does to me (as has happened twice in the past ten years, and that I can remember both events tells you how impressed I wasn't) because I'm used to the other side of the table. We can agree that our standards are different I suppose - but I'm saying that mine are objectively higher.</p><p></p><p>All this in the name of saving paper and ink (or pixels on a tablet which is where my notes generally are). If I were that worried about paper and ink I'd choose much smaller games than D&D that didn't have multiple 200 page hardbacks for the basic rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 7917897, member: 87792"] My PCs won't do what I expect or can prepare for reasonably and in detail and I like it that way. Preparing for everything is impossible. I've never needed to look up spells I wasn't prepared to use as DM because back when I used published modules, if the module half-assed things by not writing out the spells that the monsters (including the mages) had) I would go and put in the legwork myself by rewriting the stat blocks as part of my game preparation. On the contrary. The only point of "agree to disagree" is that we can agree that what you consider expected for DMs is something I would consider myself to have failed [I]miserably [/I]as a DM if I ever needed to do - and am consequently am unimpressed when a DM does to me (as has happened twice in the past ten years, and that I can remember both events tells you how impressed I wasn't) because I'm used to the other side of the table. We can agree that our standards are different I suppose - but I'm saying that mine are objectively higher. All this in the name of saving paper and ink (or pixels on a tablet which is where my notes generally are). If I were that worried about paper and ink I'd choose much smaller games than D&D that didn't have multiple 200 page hardbacks for the basic rules. [/QUOTE]
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