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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7627748" data-attributes="member: 22779">I think it's a good idea to make the distinction between rules lawyer and what my group calls a rules guru.  A rules guru is just someone who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the mechanics of the game and you can always ask her (in my group it's a her) for the rules and know that whatever she says is going to be right far, far more often than it's wrong.I LOVE rules gurus.  Hug one today.OTOH, rules lawyers suck the fun out of the game because they are actively trying to interpret the rules in such a way as to gain advantage.  This gets doubly egregious when you have a player who tries to rules lawyer but doesn't bother looking up the rules first and then argues with the DM until the books get broken out.I once had a player like this.  It was so bad, we had a table rule that if you interrupted the game for a rules argument, and you were wrong, you lost all XP for the session.  Solved that problem nicely.  He still tried to rules lawyer from time to time, but, it meant that he really, REALLY did his homework first.</blockquote>