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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5021142" data-attributes="member: 32740">Well I can imagine the rather significantly different mindset in answering such a question with, "The rules unfortunately do not cover this possibility, but what we SUGGEST is..." Nerdrage is enabled by the approach of never simply acknowledging that the rules don't - CAN'T - cover all eventualities and occasionally phrasing responses as suggestions and not always as a newly written official rule.  As I noted before, the game developed and became popular under the vague notion that it was expected for the rules to be altered for each individual campaign.  While a lot of basic mechanics noise needed to be (and was) cleared up by 3e it also endeavored to undermine the DM as a driving, creative force and place it into the hands of the players. It is, but as noted a lot of the drive for DM's to exercise creative freedom under previous editions is eliminated when there is ALWAYS an official rule or response and never an indication that the official rules don't count for everything, always, but the DM's rules do.</blockquote>