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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8579595" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Great stories, guys.&nbsp; I do think a lot of these problems comes from the game having a history of not wanting to be transparent to players- DM's don't like sharing stat blocks or giving information at all, thinking it takes the challenge away from encounters- but then not realizing how bad a &quot;gotcha&quot; monster can be.The story that actually provoked this thread was an encounter in Adventurer League for 5e- during Storm King's Thunder, I had acquired a rune that let me use Greater Restoration, once.&nbsp; As I was a Fighter/Rogue, I thought this was really sweet, and I put it in my back pocket for a rainy day.We were fighting some kind of Cyclopes, as I recall, and one of them turned the Cleric to stone!&nbsp; I carefully plotted out my turn so I could Action Surge and get to the Cleric, and slap them with the rune.Everything worked without a hitch, but the DM was like &quot;sorry man, it doesn't work&quot;.&nbsp; And he refused to elaborate as to why.&nbsp; So at the end of the encounter, he tells me the monster specifically says &quot;this petrification cannot be reversed as long as the monster is alive&quot;.&nbsp; Not only do I find that ability to be a pile of Minotaur dung, it just goes to show how terribly unfair gotcha moments can be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8579595, member: 6877472"] Great stories, guys. I do think a lot of these problems comes from the game having a history of not wanting to be transparent to players- DM's don't like sharing stat blocks or giving information at all, thinking it takes the challenge away from encounters- but then not realizing how bad a "gotcha" monster can be. The story that actually provoked this thread was an encounter in Adventurer League for 5e- during Storm King's Thunder, I had acquired a rune that let me use Greater Restoration, once. As I was a Fighter/Rogue, I thought this was really sweet, and I put it in my back pocket for a rainy day. We were fighting some kind of Cyclopes, as I recall, and one of them turned the Cleric to stone! I carefully plotted out my turn so I could Action Surge and get to the Cleric, and slap them with the rune. Everything worked without a hitch, but the DM was like "sorry man, it doesn't work". And he refused to elaborate as to why. So at the end of the encounter, he tells me the monster specifically says "this petrification cannot be reversed as long as the monster is alive". Not only do I find that ability to be a pile of Minotaur dung, it just goes to show how terribly unfair gotcha moments can be. [/QUOTE]

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