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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3084252" data-attributes="member: 2020">(chuckles)  Unfortunately for us all, Pun Pun has always existed.  He was there in the first D&D game, he lasted through OD&D, he stalked 1st edition, haunted 2nd edition, rabble roused in 3.0, and his horrid spectral visage is grinning at us in 3.5.   And his ugly face (Sam's apple not included) awaits us in 4th edition, too.  There is always the wild card, always the rule from left field, always the unexpected.  In Knightmare Chess, you come to expect that, because that is what that game is all about.  In D&D, the unexpected is also heavily what the game is about ... unfortunately for the poor, harassed, and overworked DM, the unexpected always happens, always happens at the worst time, always crashes his beautiful party, and hours of hard work go crashing down in a stupifying roar of epic disaster.  (As any DM will tell you, it has happened to him or her over and over and over and over and ...)  This rule, this Irresistible Spell Feat, is one of those nasty, unexpected surprises out of left field.  What makes this one exceptional is that it comes from a core rulebook (or, perhaps, what is exceptional is that so many rules out of left field come from core books, like the Frenzied Berserker.)  The DM has that nifty Rule Zero option as self protection against the maniacs ... err, players, that he or she is running the game for.  And that is a good thing, truly.  For otherwise, I don't think any campaign world - not even the mighty Forgotten Realms - would last past the party reaching 10th level!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (Don't take this post as a criticism to the game designers.  It is meant lightheartedly.  D&D is just one of those games which encourages the players to tear the campaign world apart, eat it for dinner, and start on the moons and stars for dessert.  It's the way of things!  (Or, they couldn't spoof us in Knights of the Dinner Table ...))</blockquote>

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