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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kheti sa-Menik" data-source="post: 3319593" data-attributes="member: 22721">Hey now, the DM may be wrong about a rule or mistaken, but that doesn't mean he has control issues.There may be any number of reasons the DM is saying this is a rule:-Maybe he's been playing under a certain DM so long that this rule is given in his way of thinking; he may not even know it's not the standard rule;-Maybe he's made it a house rule, which may or may not have been made clear in the beginning of the campaign; having GMed and at the beginning of a campaign given out a House Rules sheet, I can tell you that it's no big surprise after you make a ruling that ticks off a player he accuses you of making changes to the rules and you have to pick up the very same sheet you handed him and point out the rule that was given to him at the start of the campaign;-Maybe the DM is simply mistaken;The point is there may be any number of reasons and to call the DM a control freak or say that he has control issues is unwarranted, given the information we have.  I'm sick of players who, if they aren't allowed to do one thing they want in game (no, i won't let you be a fiendish dire lycanthropic chaotic evil assimar with dragonblood), start yelling that the DM is a control freak.  I'm more apt to give DMs the beneft of the doubt that munchkin players.</blockquote>