lukelightning
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Digital M@ said:
Overlooked? This is, in my mind, the most abused rule.
What is the most overlooked rule in dnd?
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Overlooked? This is, in my mind, the most abused rule.
lukelightning
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My list:
Encumburance: We just estimate it.
Spell components: Mostly you can ignore this, but remember you should have a hand free to retrieve the item, etc.
Casting and free hands: As others have pointed out, clerics violate this a lot. Particularly if they have to get a component.
Spell recovery schedule for divine casters: They are supposed to pick one time (morning, night, noon, whatever) and stick to it, but in practice it's always in the morning when the wizard does it.
That's cause they can't learn that "Mages Lucubration" spell.
Encumburance: We just estimate it.
Spell components: Mostly you can ignore this, but remember you should have a hand free to retrieve the item, etc.
Casting and free hands: As others have pointed out, clerics violate this a lot. Particularly if they have to get a component.
Spell recovery schedule for divine casters: They are supposed to pick one time (morning, night, noon, whatever) and stick to it, but in practice it's always in the morning when the wizard does it.
Sejs said:
That's cause they can't learn that "Mages Lucubration" spell.
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werk
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Dragonhelm said:
Actually, I think rules zero and yours both get used WAY TOO OFTEN by people too lazy to learn the mechanics that would rather hand-wave everything as DM fiat...but maybe that's just IME.
I've yet to find the full plate needs an assistant rule, but most probably forget to have their loot plate refitted (200-800gp).
Encumberance is probably most often overlooked, as are free hands, but not IMC
The most often overlooked rule that I experience is how many actions are in a round. Seems that people always want to do far too many things in the time provided.
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Tsillanabor
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I gotta go with encumbrance.
Emirikol
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The holy symbol issue has always bugged me. Two crossed sticks or some paint on your shield does not a holy symbol make. You should have to hold your holy symbol in your hand, just like a wizard has to present their spell components. Also, since there has never been any other classification of a holy symbol, other than the two presented in the PHB, I assume that there is no substitution. No, it's not a hard rule, but I think clerics are powerful enough of a class on their own right to be able to cheat the rules.
The other one is the potion/ wand bandolier. I can't find one shred of evidence that this thing has ever existed on any equipment list ever anywhere. How do players just get to make up rules like this? If something's going to be in a bandolier, then it's eligible for sunder, fireball, etc. We already know that to "hide" something on your person (other than completley stowing something, which is a full round action to retrieve), requires a successful sleight of hand check.
Players making up their own rules may be part of the reason DM's have to work so much harder in their games.
jh (a DM
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The other one is the potion/ wand bandolier. I can't find one shred of evidence that this thing has ever existed on any equipment list ever anywhere. How do players just get to make up rules like this? If something's going to be in a bandolier, then it's eligible for sunder, fireball, etc. We already know that to "hide" something on your person (other than completley stowing something, which is a full round action to retrieve), requires a successful sleight of hand check.
Players making up their own rules may be part of the reason DM's have to work so much harder in their games.
jh (a DM
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sckeener
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Many of the over looked or ignored rules are just things that slow the game down.
Encumbrance - this is something that just screams for a computer
Upkeep (water/food/etc) - again something that needs software to manage
Spell Components - this was so bad that in our HB game we gave everyone Eschew Materials
Massive damage - we got rid of the rule since we have characters at Epic levels too
XP Penalties - we find other ways to make players pay instead of XP penalties.
Wealth by level - we consider it a guide, but basically ignore it. It only is an issue if the players have less than the recommended
Spell recovery schedule for divine casters - in our HB the religion determines the prayer time....it caused some fun when we had multiple different religions in the group.....all those different rest periods when I had monsters either regroup or attacking....good times
Encumbrance - this is something that just screams for a computer
Upkeep (water/food/etc) - again something that needs software to manage
Spell Components - this was so bad that in our HB game we gave everyone Eschew Materials
Massive damage - we got rid of the rule since we have characters at Epic levels too
XP Penalties - we find other ways to make players pay instead of XP penalties.
Wealth by level - we consider it a guide, but basically ignore it. It only is an issue if the players have less than the recommended
Spell recovery schedule for divine casters - in our HB the religion determines the prayer time....it caused some fun when we had multiple different religions in the group.....all those different rest periods when I had monsters either regroup or attacking....good times
Emirikol
Adventurer
sckeener said:
Wealth by level has primarily one use: establishing how much wealth "replacement" characters come into the game with. I do like the "attunement" thought though which limits PC's to not being able to use more than their wealth/level in magical items.
bankuei.blogspot.com/2006/05/dd-gamehack.html
We play lower-magic now that we're older though so it's less relevant...
jh
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