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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 1328765" data-attributes="member: 5890">First up - I'm Saeviomagy, not artoomis - artoomis's quote is later...No - it's not clear. You're banning THIS PLAYER from tumbling in THIS SITUATION - beyond that your arguments suggest that you might be doing something else.If it has no contribution to the story (this includes rulings that greatly increase the power of a single character to levels where it disrupts the campaign), then banning it has zero positive effects. While, at the same time, banning it has the negative effect of annoying a player.ESPECIALLY when he was going to rely on that ability to get him out of a tight situation.This really is making the difference between life and death for him. It obviously seemed to him that tumble should work mid-air just fine, just like the rules say it does.What you're doing is making a house rule. Not only that, you're making a house rule when it will screw over a player.If, before the game, you'd said "by the way, you can't tumble while flying", then I daresay the aforementioned rogue would have considered retreat earlier.The rules exist so that players and GM's have common ground upon which to base their playing of the game. If the GM suddenly changes those rules, then that's an abuse of the GM's power (ie - only the GM really has the power to change rules, and the PCs rely on him to use it in a responsible manner).I didn't say allow it with no penalties, I just said "don't ban it"Personally - in the situation given above, I'd let him tumble, possibly at a penalty if he agrees, THEN between games propose the "no tumbling while flying" rule.I think that doing it the way you've done it is tremendously unfair to the players who may be banking on certain rules when they execute a plan.The only real alternative is to rewind time when a rule is changed, and that's such a pain it's almost impossible to do properly.</blockquote>

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