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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4016635" data-attributes="member: 710">As a DM, you're making up stuff all the time. The whole adventure plot is entirely made up, it doesn't stand in any rule-book.Players only get annoyed if things are obviously made up during an encounter to defeat a sensible tactic the DM hasn't expected. Or if abilities are added that obviously make a monster more powerful, without the DM accounting for it sensibly and increasing CR or EL. (And the later is only because I am also a DM and see this as a bad style if it's done without consent of the players. I don't mind the DM upping a few encounters if it's obvious they wouldn't challenge us anyway...)That's the kind of things I'd hate. I don't care if a Pit Fiend summons elementals in his free time, or creates illusionary walls in his castle. It's not as giving a Wizard a spell like "Animate Dead" really explains where he got all the money to maintain his army of Undeads (is this within the NPC wealth guidelines?). I would want "Persistant Imagel" in a Pit Fiends stat block if the DM claims that a trap using one of these illusionary floors isn't worth any XP because the Pit Fiend did it (because it is really only factored into his level/XP if it's accounted for in his stat block).</blockquote>