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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3475209" data-attributes="member: 41584">I wouldn't advice you to memorize the entire rules, eratta and all, since that's like *insane,* but it would be better to brush up on the specific plot point rules.  In this case, you wanted to scare the character with a bow-sunder, and so your only 'mistake' was this;If the whole point of the bow-sunder was to make the player go, 'oh noeess!' then you should have already figured out the HP / Hardness of her bow, and, ideally, executed the actual sunder action fast enough that she wouldn't have time to flip through a couple books and find out that the bow was actually pretty darn tough.  A little flavor text, 'His axe grates up the length of your bow, failing to smash it, but shaving long curls of wood off of the edge.  He snarls and readies for another attempt on the now-weakened bow!'  Even if he only did a few hit points of damage and came nowhere near sundering the bow, it could look worse in the heat of combat (and would be easily patched up with a Mending spell or something after, since the bow wouldn't be broken, only slightly damaged).You don't have to know every rule ever.  But if you plan on having the Ogre attempt to Bull Rush the Fighter into a pit, it's best to look up Bull Rush in advance.  If it's just 'Ogre encounter A' and you don't have anything special planned, then it doesn't matter.  Write down their AC / hit points / BAB on little cards and send them in to die.</blockquote>

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