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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2449174" data-attributes="member: 30035">I hate that too. I also wish there were some way to refer to spells by something other than their names from the PHB. Why would a wizard from one country necessarily use the same spell name as a wizard from a completely different culture? Why would a wizard and a cleric use the same name? But I overlook that one because it's too complicated to come up with alternate spell names or descriptions and then expect the GM and possibly the other players to recognize them all.  And I dislike it when players immediately identify a monster and start referring to it by it's MM name. If the party has probably never seen that monster before, then unless someone makes a knowledge check to know what it is, we shouldn't know what it is. Especially not its attacks or vulnerabilities. I particularly despise using relatively ordinary English personal names (i.e. Jason, Harold, Frederick) for characters in a non-Earth fantasy setting. It's okay in a one-shot or humorous game, but in a long-term serious campaign it just becomes a constant irritation to me like a blister in my brain.  I agree with Rel's complaint about NPCs, too. I have a GM whom I otherwise really admire and enjoy playing with, who insists on making all his NPCs have extreme secret motivations that the PCs can never understand. No one is ever what they seem.  I really dislike having all NPC representatives of any race behave in a stereotypical manner. Halflings do not all have to be obsessed with food. Dwarves do not all have to be humorless gold-grubbers. Certainly there are racial traits, but members of a particular race don't have to be clones of each other.</blockquote>

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