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<blockquote data-quote="EOL" data-source="post: 32880" data-attributes="member: 823">There seems to be two issues here, the dwarven ranger's abuse of the rules and your general problem that you don't know the rules as well as the players.As far as how you handle the immediate problem of the dwarven ranger there have already been quite a few good ideas, but I think your going to continue having these problems in a different form as long as you rely on them for the rules.&nbsp; So I would offer a few of suggestions.&nbsp; First get to know the three core books really well.Second have a standing rule that anytime anybody wants to introduce anything outside of the three core books they have to run it by you, even if it's something like the Sword and Fist (some would say especially if it's from Sword and Fist <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )&nbsp; This way you can always evaluate something before it starts hosing your campaign.Third and this is the big one make them show you where it says something, not have you try and show them where it doesn't.&nbsp; If you had followed this rule the dwarven Urgosh never would have been a problem, because he would have had to show you explicitly where it said Dwarves got a free exotic weapon proficiency, it doesn't ever say that so the problem would have never arisen.Finally make sure that people know this is a cooperative game and that if you find out that people have been abusing the rules or helping other players abuse the rules then their characters get retired and the have to create new ones, or something similar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EOL, post: 32880, member: 823"] There seems to be two issues here, the dwarven ranger's abuse of the rules and your general problem that you don't know the rules as well as the players. As far as how you handle the immediate problem of the dwarven ranger there have already been quite a few good ideas, but I think your going to continue having these problems in a different form as long as you rely on them for the rules. So I would offer a few of suggestions. First get to know the three core books really well. Second have a standing rule that anytime anybody wants to introduce anything outside of the three core books they have to run it by you, even if it's something like the Sword and Fist (some would say especially if it's from Sword and Fist :) ) This way you can always evaluate something before it starts hosing your campaign. Third and this is the big one make them show you where it says something, not have you try and show them where it doesn't. If you had followed this rule the dwarven Urgosh never would have been a problem, because he would have had to show you explicitly where it said Dwarves got a free exotic weapon proficiency, it doesn't ever say that so the problem would have never arisen. Finally make sure that people know this is a cooperative game and that if you find out that people have been abusing the rules or helping other players abuse the rules then their characters get retired and the have to create new ones, or something similar. [/QUOTE]

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