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<blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 5722687" data-attributes="member: 23094">And, from my opinion, those &quot;rules&quot; suck and are the primary cause of crappy DMing throughout the years.I'm a pretty good DM.&nbsp; My group likes when I DM; we rotate, and I always get asked back into the head chair.I don't need to throw out rules and futz with this fluff-overriding-crunch BS to run a good game.And when I use houserules, I provide them to my players in a typed-up document that they get to review before the game starts.&nbsp; I don't pull the rug out from under them by changing the rules everyone agreed to use during play.&nbsp; I can do that quite easily by messing around with manipulative NPCs, tough monsters, challenging puzzles, dynamic settings, etc.I don't need to play dirty pool to play a good game of billiards.Yeah, no.&nbsp; I completely disagree.No, he took a single attack roll, and said &quot;How can I add something to it?&quot;&nbsp; No other characters were affected in this way by this or any other ogre that we fought (because, presumably, no one else suffered an attack which was fluffed as &quot;strong enough&quot;).No, he can't.&nbsp; Not unless he's going to cheat - and, for my part, I believe that DMs can cheat, because your rules for DMing are terrible.I have.&nbsp; I don't like it, and I don't run my games that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patryn of Elvenshae, post: 5722687, member: 23094"] And, from my opinion, those "rules" suck and are the primary cause of crappy DMing throughout the years. I'm a pretty good DM. My group likes when I DM; we rotate, and I always get asked back into the head chair. I don't need to throw out rules and futz with this fluff-overriding-crunch BS to run a good game. And when I use houserules, I provide them to my players in a typed-up document that they get to review before the game starts. I don't pull the rug out from under them [I]by changing the rules everyone agreed to use[/I] during play. I can do that quite easily by messing around with manipulative NPCs, tough monsters, challenging puzzles, dynamic settings, etc. I don't need to play dirty pool to play a good game of billiards. Yeah, no. I completely disagree. No, he took a single attack roll, and said "How can I add something to it?" No other characters were affected in this way by this or any other ogre that we fought (because, presumably, no one else suffered an attack which was fluffed as "strong enough"). No, he can't. Not unless he's going to cheat - and, for my part, I believe that DMs [I]can[/I] cheat, because your rules for DMing are terrible. I have. I don't like it, and I don't run my games that way. [/QUOTE]

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