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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8970228" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'm in between on this: design for the general, yes, but at the same time keep an eye out for the more obvious what-ifs and sort them out at the design level where possible.&nbsp; This principle holds true both for game-rules design and adventure writing.This &quot;gentlemen's agreement&quot; is exactly the sort of metagame thinking that drives me nuts.Either rules-fix the spell so it works like you and your table really want it to or accept the fact that both you and your players can (and IMO should, in-character) use it to whatever best effects present themselves at the time.The mature discussion should start with &quot;This rule breaks things, how can we fix it so it no longer breaks things?&quot;, and go from there.&nbsp; (personally, were I the DM in this example I'd start one step further back and ask &quot;Does sitting out for ten turns break the game for you?&quot;, and if I got any &quot;yes&quot; answers some big red flags would go up; as IMO and IME not being involved for a while now and then is a hard-wired fact of RPG play)And if it turns out the rule can't be fixed then maybe the nuclear option is to - in this example - drop the spell completely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8970228, member: 29398"] I'm in between on this: design for the general, yes, but at the same time keep an eye out for the more obvious what-ifs and sort them out at the design level where possible. This principle holds true both for game-rules design and adventure writing. This "gentlemen's agreement" is exactly the sort of metagame thinking that drives me nuts. Either rules-fix the spell so it works like you and your table really want it to or accept the fact that both you and your players can (and IMO should, in-character) use it to whatever best effects present themselves at the time. The mature discussion should start with "This rule breaks things, [I]how can we fix it[/I] so it no longer breaks things?", and go from there. (personally, were I the DM in this example I'd start one step further back and ask "Does sitting out for ten turns break the game for you?", and if I got any "yes" answers some big red flags would go up; as IMO and IME not being involved for a while now and then is a hard-wired fact of RPG play) And if it turns out the rule can't be fixed then maybe the nuclear option is to - in this example - drop the spell completely. [/QUOTE]

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