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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bennyhobo" data-source="post: 5158268" data-attributes="member: 89606">Ok, so I'm playing with a group of n00bs to 4E, including our DM.  He played 3.5 a lot, and I'm pretty sure he keeps rolling back to 3.5 rules and stuff.  He's admitted to me that he didn't read the 4E Players Handbook, only the quick start rules you can get for free on the Wizards' website.  I'll spare you the detailed breakdown of what rules I know for sure that he's ignoring.  My main question is about two encounters. 1st:  4 players vs. a T-rex - He said that the T-rex has a special condition where, with it's thick hide, you can't tell if it's bloodied or not.  Is that a real thing, or did he make it up? 2nd: 4 players vs. 20 angry gorilla creatures - He had us (all level 2 characters, btw) fight 20 gorillas of some kind, and he said that they all had some kind of group power, where as they were killed, the remaining creatures would increase in power.  So after every round of combat, if any of them died, the rest of them got 10 more HP, and all their other stats increased.  By the end of the encounter, they'd grown to be 12 feet tall with four arms.  I think the only reason we didn't die is because he realized that they were supremely overpowered for our characters, and he started dialing their stats back down.  Again, is this a real thing in 4E?  Did he make it up?  Is it based on something from 3.5? I don't have the resources to investigate myself (meaning, I don't have the cash to buy a bunch of books to look it up), so I'm hoping people on here can give me some insight? I'm not complaining if he made them up.  Whatever.  He's trying to make it fun.  I just want to know that when he says "Oh yeah, this is all standard stuff." that he's not lying to me.  Because if he is lying, then I'm afraid that I can't trust him as a DM when it comes to stuff that's going to matter.  Then again, I already said that I know he's ignoring some rules.  So I already can't trust him to play fair. Well, either way, can anyone shed a little light?  I'm hoping that I'm overreacting.  Houserules are fine by me, as long as the players KNOW that they're houserules.  The problem I have is that he's trying to pass them off as the real rules.  And the times that I've caught him on that, he's blown it off and ignored me. Sorry, that was pretty erratic. Thanks! Benny</blockquote>

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