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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aelryinth" data-source="post: 8096785" data-attributes="member: 10515">And you may or may not have experienced this, but from the player's side, this comes across as DM Fiat asshattery."Oh, your gunpowder is missing! It got stolen!""Oh, it's raining today, your gunpowder is wet and can't be used!""Oh, your kegs all swelled up and sprang leaks, and its unusable.""Oh, you didn't go back far enough, and you're taking incidental damage!" -Note, this can backfire if the PC's realize you just expanded the blast radius of the explosion, and how they can do it.---You may think that's clever drawbacks, but that's not how the PC's are going to take it. It's going to come across as arbitrary nerfing."Oh, your magic sword is missing! it got stolen!""Oh, it's raining! you can't use your bow!""Oh, your armor is wet and the straps are loose, it won't stay attached!""Oh, your sword hilt is slippery, and flies from your hand!""Oh, that fireball has a bigger blast radius then you expected, and you're caught in the area of effect!"---YOur 'clever tricks' are coming across exactly the same way as the other 'believable stuff' I just posted.</blockquote>