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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9357781" data-attributes="member: 29398">Precedent is also set every tme I make a ruling during play on somethng that hasn't come up before.That, and while it'd be nice to catch all these things in or before session 0 (or session 1) there's just no way in hell that'll happen.  Somewhere along the line it's almost guaranteed a player will come up with a combo or exploit or whatever that you-as-DM just didn't see coming and that - even though the RAW says it's legal - still needs ruling on in the moment with a view to whether it'll potentially wreck the game going forward.For that specific example, I make it pretty clear up front what's allowed and what isn't; and how even the allowed combinations face restrictions that single-class characters don't.Correct.  Once a PC has the spell, or has cast it (even from a scroll), or a foe has used it against them, it's pretty much locked in.See above: yes, ideally it should have been caught ahead of time but in reality not everything will be.I don't go so far as "all"; if it comes to that, majority vote will do.  That said, I try to not incorporate major rule changes mid-campaign, and often find myself stuck with precedents where - given a do-over - I'd have ruled differently.  But, so be it. <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=":)" />Or if it's player-generated during the campaign, e.g. a PC researching and inventing a new spell.</blockquote>

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