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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 1153472" data-attributes="member: 232">One of the things I do a lot is have spells and magicaly effects that don't exist in the books.  I don't actually write the spells up I just describe what they do.  It's rare that a player ever gains access to the spells because they are specialized spells.  For instance tonight the group will probably run into a priest of the water god.  He will have spells that only priests of the water god have access to.  Since none of the players are clerics, it's highly doubtful that they will ever have need to know the spells.  I know a lot of DMs feel that they have to take things from the same sources as the players to keep things fair.  I've always felt that as long as what I'm created is fair (at least in my mind) it should be okay.So, what is you all's opinions of DMs creating things for the NPCs that the players never get to use either by design or circumstance?</blockquote>