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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6020281" data-attributes="member: 17106">I tend to do less banning than changing. For instance, if every 3rd level wizard started dropping Glitterdust into the middle of a crowd, I'd probably take away the blindness or at least reduce it to 1 round and dazzled thereafter. Because my players know I will do this, they pick effective but not overpowered spells and never even try to abuse Polymorph and the like, meaning there is no need to&nbsp; ban things.Where players do object to this type of thing, I suspect that the underlying sense of entitlement needs to be weeded out. If a rule in a rulebook produces an unreasonable result (in the eyes of the DM first and foremost, or the eyes of the players), something needs to be changed. Really, there should be an asterisk next to every sentence of text in the PHB, linking to one note at the end that says &quot;...within reason&quot;.Fortunately, IME most of the rules lawyer types can be taught to play the game without being a jerk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6020281, member: 17106"] I tend to do less banning than changing. For instance, if every 3rd level wizard started dropping Glitterdust into the middle of a crowd, I'd probably take away the blindness or at least reduce it to 1 round and dazzled thereafter. Because my players know I will do this, they pick effective but not overpowered spells and never even try to abuse Polymorph and the like, meaning there is no need to ban things. Where players do object to this type of thing, I suspect that the underlying sense of entitlement needs to be weeded out. If a rule in a rulebook produces an unreasonable result (in the eyes of the DM first and foremost, or the eyes of the players), something needs to be changed. Really, there should be an asterisk next to every sentence of text in the PHB, linking to one note at the end that says "...within reason". Fortunately, IME most of the rules lawyer types can be taught to play the game without being a jerk. [/QUOTE]

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