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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7870391" data-attributes="member: 93670">There's two reactions to this &amp; they depend on the type of table.&nbsp; In my non-AL games it's a complete nonissue &amp; everyone but one nameless munchkin who refused to stop passing off gestalt as MC accepts it with some variant of &quot;yea that would be pretty broken otherwise&quot;....&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The problem violently rears it's ugly head at my AL tables where I'm explicitly not supposed to be making house rules and engaging in creative interpretations outside strict RAW &amp; the narrow rulings WotC sets down so wide eyed newbies &amp; cackling munchkins come equipped with ammunition &amp; enough credibility to sway doubts in other players who might not know better &amp; it's not fair to those other players to sit through the GM stopping the game to come off as the bad guy telling Bob that&nbsp; things don't work that way.&nbsp; &nbsp; I live in a fairly large &amp; densely populated area so those FLGS AL tables can be pretty reliably filled with a random assortment of rotating folks none of the regular gms or players know &amp; those unknown folks can frequently be a majority where a particularly stubborn pr persuasive munchkin can turn them off to returning. &nbsp;I've run lmop, CoS, stk, &amp; embers as open AL tables at a nearby FLGS (some of those more than once) &amp; have had that no good &quot;debate&quot; come up repeatedly in each run.&nbsp; Sometimes I catch it early, usually due to acting like a helicopter parent &amp; reminding people before they are about to deliberately misinterpret unforgivably misleading wording.&nbsp; Other times I catch it only after saying things like &quot;how do you have that many level x spell slots at your level?&quot;, &quot;no a level 3/3 scorlock does not have any third level slots&quot;, or &quot;no I dn't care what aspect of the moon says... it doesn't let you take eight short rests during a long rest &amp; you can't have more sorcery points/spell slots than are granted by your sorcerer level even if it did&quot; and similar.&nbsp; In all of those cases, a newer player can be turned off by the whole thing or worse be encouraged to act like the same twinky munchkin because some gm didn't notice &amp; call Bob on his shenanigans only to be disappointed by what might seem like an arbitrary &amp; capricious ruling after watching Bob dominate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7870391, member: 93670"] There's two reactions to this & they depend on the [I]type [/I]of table. In my non-AL games it's a complete nonissue & everyone but one nameless munchkin who refused to stop passing off gestalt as MC accepts it with some variant of "yea that would be pretty broken otherwise".... The problem violently rears it's ugly head at my AL tables where I'm explicitly not supposed to be making house rules and engaging in creative interpretations outside strict RAW & the narrow rulings WotC sets down so wide eyed newbies & cackling munchkins come equipped with ammunition & enough credibility to sway doubts in other players who might not know better & it's not fair to those other players to sit through the GM stopping the game to come off as the bad guy telling Bob that things don't work that way. I live in a fairly large & densely populated area so those FLGS AL tables can be pretty reliably filled with a random assortment of rotating folks none of the regular gms or players know & those unknown folks can frequently be a majority where a particularly stubborn pr persuasive munchkin can turn them off to returning. I've run lmop, CoS, stk, & embers as open AL tables at a nearby FLGS (some of those more than once) & have had that no good "debate" come up repeatedly in each run. Sometimes I catch it early, usually due to acting like a helicopter parent & reminding people before they are about to deliberately misinterpret unforgivably misleading wording. Other times I catch it only after saying things like "how do you have [I]that[/I] many level x spell slots at your level?", "no a level 3/3 scorlock does not have [I]any[/I] third level slots", or "no I dn't care what aspect of the moon says... it doesn't let you take eight short rests during a long rest & you can't have more sorcery points/spell slots than are granted by your sorcerer level even if it did" and similar. In all of those cases, a newer player can be turned off by the whole thing or worse be encouraged to act like the same twinky munchkin because some gm didn't notice & call Bob on his shenanigans only to be disappointed by what might seem like an arbitrary & capricious ruling after watching Bob dominate. [/QUOTE]

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