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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8660262" data-attributes="member: 29398">However, just because they can doesn't necessarily mean they should - at least not without some underlying reason or rationale other than pure whim - mostly because a GM doing too much by whim is likely to end up with some very confused players who have no idea how things in the setting are supposed to work.The key word is consistency.In D&amp;D a significant subset of PCs can also do this via the spells Precipitation and-or Cloudburst; thus a GM having an NPC cast the spell is fair game.&nbsp; As long as the underlying rationale - in this case someone casting a spell - is present, even if not obvious to the PCs e.g. the NPC who cast it is standing behind a hedge, all is good.That said, note that those spells are also consistent with themselves in that they work in a somewhat predictable way each time one is cast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8660262, member: 29398"] However, just because they can doesn't necessarily mean they should - at least not without some underlying reason or rationale other than pure whim - mostly because a GM doing too much by whim is likely to end up with some very confused players who have no idea how things in the setting are supposed to work. The key word is consistency. In D&D a significant subset of PCs can also do this via the spells [I]Precipitation[/I] and-or [I]Cloudburst[/I]; thus a GM having an NPC cast the spell is fair game. As long as the underlying rationale - in this case someone casting a spell - is present, even if not obvious to the PCs e.g. the NPC who cast it is standing behind a hedge, all is good. That said, note that those spells are also consistent with themselves in that they work in a somewhat predictable way each time one is cast. [/QUOTE]

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