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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amitiel" data-source="post: 3301564" data-attributes="member: 49039">No kidding. I literally quit a game because of a DM who 'neglected' to tell us of house rules, and worse initially claimed that 'everything is as written in the book'.  Our first clue he was full of it was when he backpedalled on that statment 20 minutes after he made it to rewrite Identify to give a single fact about the magic item it was cast on but only that fact.  Real Example:  I cast Identify to ID a wand we found, It was a Wand of Detect Magic, he then said I would have to cast it again to determine how to use it and a 3rd time to see how many charges but that would have to wait since a single casting took 8 hours.  I was then informed (after pointing out Identify tells you everything about the object and only takes 1 hour to cast) that he preferred the 3.0 version of the spell, after pointing out that it also said that activation and charges I was informed this was how he wanted the spell to work.  One single fact per 8 hour casting.  I was a little perturbed but worked around him by buying scrolls of Identify. Our second clue was after explicitly stating core races only his roomate appeared with a character from another game who was not only a teifling but 6 levels higher than us, wearing demon plate and carrying a +3 great sword.  Our 'encounters' at that point consisted of him slaughtering anything we could handle and anything that could challenge him we couldn't touch with a 10' pole.  He then set off yet another pet peeve, he came to many sessions not only unprepared but with no clue whatsoever with what to do with us.  He started rolling dice to see which book he would choose a monster we would watch fight his roomates character while we made like leadership feat followers.  And the monster he threw at us were completely arbritrary.   I left when a character got the obvious magic mcguffin sword.  It was forged by a Amethyst dragon, who in the form of a elven blacksmith invited us into his cavern home (my wonky meter was offset by the randomness by this point but I was still wary of a cave dwelling high elf with a bad robin hood accent.  While taking to the roomates character and the party mage (mine had died by that point and replaced with a 1/2-orc secretly intent on killing the roomie for the demonplate) when one of the fighters 'finds' a sword in the forge.   A Great sword with a number of gems in the blade, each one glowing with a differant color except one.  While the fighters playing with it, the dragon runs into the forge, right onto the sword. Last crystal lights up ameythist in color. (see where this is going yet?)  Our 6th level party (with at that point 1 10th level member) was in posetion of a artifact level weapon.  The weilder and anyone in 10' had immunity anything from a dragon, spells, breath weapon, ect. and killed dragons in single hits via a no save death effect.  4 very stupid dragons later. (Stupid as in charge straight at us and get slaughtered) I gave up on the game.   And held a near legendary argument.  Dragons are not stupid, even white dragons aren't that dumb, merely average.   If it had been all white dragons maybe I could have seen it, but the mature adult blue? With its 16 int? Knowing the last 2 dragons sent after us never came back? 1 stupid dragon I could see, 2 maybe but pushing it, 3 disbelief abounds, but 4 in a row!!! (I'm told that after I left it rose to 8 plus 2 dracoliches, who despite being dead were still killed instantly by the sword on contact.)  I pray that someday he finds himself in a game I run so I can throw in a dragon just to show him what dragon tactics are all about.</blockquote>

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