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<blockquote data-quote="Chronosome" data-source="post: 937202" data-attributes="member: 274">Here's a pair of &quot;what I do&quot; house rules related to some discussion in this thread:-When someone's taking too long, &quot;chessing&quot; a combat action (in the past I've had at least two players notorious for this) I bust out &quot;okay, you're delaying&quot; after about thirty seconds.&nbsp; That way, the combat environment is changing around them, so they're forced to think a little quicker in the future...&nbsp; And, hey, that's part of what the delay action is!&nbsp; A PC taking some time to wait and think...-If a newbie shows up to the table, or a PC dies that player's allowed to make a character one level lower than the highest PC's level.&nbsp; This doesn't let the new guy overshadow the fact that the original party has earned their place, IMO.And here's two house rules you guys might think are strange:--In a great game I've played in, run by another EN Worlder, PCs didn't roll HP--every character got 75% of their maximum.&nbsp; (My DM's attempt at keeping character generation less random and fairer to the players.)--In the game I ran, getting raised from the dead incurred no level or Constitution loss...but you could only die three times.&nbsp; Your third death was your last.&nbsp; In a good, character-rich game, I think death is its own punishment...I don't believe a character should lose a level because of bad luck.&nbsp; I even had an ancient religious myth called &quot;The Pact of Three&quot; which explained 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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chronosome, post: 937202, member: 274"] Here's a pair of "what I do" house rules related to some discussion in this thread: -When someone's taking too long, "chessing" a combat action (in the past I've had at least two players notorious for this) I bust out "okay, you're [b]delaying[/b]" after about thirty seconds. That way, the combat environment is changing around them, so they're forced to think a little quicker in the future... And, hey, that's part of what the delay action is! A PC taking some time to wait and think... -If a newbie shows up to the table, or a PC dies that player's allowed to make a character one level lower than the highest PC's level. This doesn't let the new guy overshadow the fact that the original party has earned their place, IMO. And here's two house rules you guys might think are strange: --In a great game I've played in, run by another EN Worlder, PCs didn't roll HP--every character got 75% of their maximum. (My DM's attempt at keeping character generation less random and fairer to the players.) --In the game I ran, getting raised from the dead incurred no level or Constitution loss...but you could only die three times. Your third death was your last. In a good, character-rich game, I think death is its own punishment...I don't believe a character should lose a level because of bad luck. I even had an ancient religious myth called "The Pact of Three" which explained it. :) [/QUOTE]

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