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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8431328" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Ah the power mad chaotic DM, Doc Hyperbole, raises his strawman head once again.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Good grief.  While I do believe the DM is in charge of the rules, a DM that runs bizarro D&D probably isn't going to have players for long.  I do it once in a great while based on the setting and the scene.   Examples:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Halloween episode where darkvision didn't work (everyone had it either via race or magic) so that I could create an atmosphere and have things in the dark without resorting to the ubiquitous fog. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's a region in my world where magic is unstable; sometimes magic doesn't work, sometimes it's more effective, sometimes we roll on the wild magic chart.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I once told the fighter type that they didn't swing their sword, that something stopped them mid swing; it was because of a suppressed memory and they were about to kill someone they loved.</li> </ul>So yes, crazy world where rules don't exist!  Woo-hoo!  Everyone jump on the DM's power fantasy!  Or not.  There are many ways to play D&D, I usually follow the rules pretty closely except for established house rules.  When I don't follow the letter of the rules, I bend them in favor of the PCs as often as not and to make the scene more interesting.  Based on some other threads, other DMs do this kind of thing far more often than I do.But Doc Hyperbole? If they're out there I suspect they're pretty lonely, gloating about how amazing they are to an empty room.</blockquote>

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