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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6022326" data-attributes="member: 31216">I love Players who have a deep and full grasp of the game rules. I also love new Players who are excited about getting into a new game. But sometimes I hate when the first type helps the second type. For instance:New Player: I can only do this once a round?DM: Yes.[At this point, the game could continue without missing a beat. But...]Expert Player: Unless you have X feat. Or have Y spell cast on you. Or are in Z situation. And if you have both X and Y, then you can three times a round, not four. But if you are also in Z situation, you can four times, but not six.[And for bonus annoyance...]Experienced Player: Oh man, I once had a character with X feat. The mage cast Y spell on me, and then Z situation came up and I . . . [10 minutes of old story that includes explaining house rules "fixing" the X, Y, Z combination].Now the New Player has far too much information than he needed at the moment, and he's probably confused. I have seen New Players get that deer in the headlights look when the enormity of the rules is given to them in one big chunk.Expert Players, please avoid bringing up exceptions to rules unless the specific exception is actually in play at the time. Experienced Players, please avoid mention of house rules unless they are relevant to the game being played at the table at that time.Bullgrit</blockquote>