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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5577140" data-attributes="member: 22779">I can totally get behind this.I once had a DM in a 2e game, after my character had spent significant time, several levels, and tons of money building a library and a laboratory so that I could research spells, suddenly announce that my odds of spell research were now cut by 75%, because, in his view, &quot;relatively low level MU's should never be able to create their own spells&quot;.Had I known that my chance of success was going to go from 25% (ish) to about 5% per attempt, with each attempt taking several weeks and signficant resouces (as per the 2e Complete Wizard's spell creation rules), I might not have designed my character around the concept that he was a research wizard.&nbsp; Like Kraydak says, if the DM's information should be easily available to the affected character, such as the odds of summoning a fire elemental every time a fire spell is cast (presuming this is a campaign wide issue, and not something really specific to a relatively small locale), then the DM should be providing this information without prompting.Otherwise, you just annoy the crap out of your players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5577140, member: 22779"] I can totally get behind this. I once had a DM in a 2e game, after my character had spent significant time, several levels, and tons of money building a library and a laboratory so that I could research spells, suddenly announce that my odds of spell research were now cut by 75%, because, in his view, "relatively low level MU's should never be able to create their own spells". Had I known that my chance of success was going to go from 25% (ish) to about 5% per attempt, with each attempt taking several weeks and signficant resouces (as per the 2e Complete Wizard's spell creation rules), I might not have designed my character around the concept that he was a research wizard. Like Kraydak says, if the DM's information should be easily available to the affected character, such as the odds of summoning a fire elemental every time a fire spell is cast (presuming this is a campaign wide issue, and not something really specific to a relatively small locale), then the DM should be providing this information without prompting. Otherwise, you just annoy the crap out of your players. [/QUOTE]

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