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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 535311" data-attributes="member: 7808">Since we're on the subject of how DMs con be wrong, I would also add that it is extremely and unquestionably wrong for the DM to ever change his stance on a ruling that he made without clearly explaining his change of plans to the players (that is, admiting he was wrong before <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).&nbsp; If the DM in question later made an NPC wizard who cast the Bigby's spell and had it see through the character's illusions because the NPC could without first telling the players that he had changed his mind about the ruling, I would probably be getting ready to organize a circle beating.As it is, the current group that I play with has 3 DMs.&nbsp; It's kind of annoying to begin with, because what occurs in one campaign may not take affect until after another one ends, etc.&nbsp; But more relevantly, its really odd to notice how all three of them make their own, substantially different, type of mistakes.&nbsp; One knows spells like the back of his hand, but has yet to figure out most of the finer points of the combat system (length of turns, occasionally initiative, and, of course, AoOs).&nbsp; Another knows the combat system well, but really doesn't pay attention to a lot of stuff that goes on (like the number of times the mage has cast magic missle today), and occasionally does stuff that's just plain sickening (like reroll dice for his girlfriend if they come out wrong, then deciding that all of the monsters were going to attack me because I noticed it and called him on it).&nbsp; The last one still has a lot of problems converting from 2e.&nbsp; All three can be equalling annoying at times (though I have, for the most part, stopped playing with the second one mentioned).&nbsp; I have to admit, though, that because of it, I've gotten to know the rules a lot better myself, because I got pissed off at contradicory rulings for long enough to make me become the closest thing our group has to a rules lawyer.Edit:&nbsp; Oops, someone already made this point.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; Right now, I'm so sick of studying computer science that I'm going over D+D stuff just to see numbers that aren't 1's and 0's.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 535311, member: 7808"] Since we're on the subject of how DMs con be wrong, I would also add that it is extremely and unquestionably wrong for the DM to ever change his stance on a ruling that he made without clearly explaining his change of plans to the players (that is, admiting he was wrong before :D ). If the DM in question later made an NPC wizard who cast the Bigby's spell and had it see through the character's illusions because the NPC could without first telling the players that he had changed his mind about the ruling, I would probably be getting ready to organize a circle beating. As it is, the current group that I play with has 3 DMs. It's kind of annoying to begin with, because what occurs in one campaign may not take affect until after another one ends, etc. But more relevantly, its really odd to notice how all three of them make their own, substantially different, type of mistakes. One knows spells like the back of his hand, but has yet to figure out most of the finer points of the combat system (length of turns, occasionally initiative, and, of course, AoOs). Another knows the combat system well, but really doesn't pay attention to a lot of stuff that goes on (like the number of times the mage has cast magic missle today), and occasionally does stuff that's just plain sickening (like reroll dice for his girlfriend if they come out wrong, then deciding that all of the monsters were going to attack me because I noticed it and called him on it). The last one still has a lot of problems converting from 2e. All three can be equalling annoying at times (though I have, for the most part, stopped playing with the second one mentioned). I have to admit, though, that because of it, I've gotten to know the rules a lot better myself, because I got pissed off at contradicory rulings for long enough to make me become the closest thing our group has to a rules lawyer. Edit: Oops, someone already made this point. Oh well. Right now, I'm so sick of studying computer science that I'm going over D+D stuff just to see numbers that aren't 1's and 0's. [/QUOTE]

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