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<blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 6013909" data-attributes="member: 2656">Take for instance the example of a PC specialising in fire damage. If the adventure you are running with this houserule involves fighting with lots of fire immune elementals, that PC is going to be less useful, maybe a lot less useful, and probably much less fun to play. Houserules like this should be known to the players, IMO, if they significantly affect the game. While this takes away a little discovery, that sort of discovery can only happen once, I personally would like to avoid discoveries like is &quot;My PC is useless for this campaign, I'm going to act as drain on group resources, or need to roll up a new PC&quot; (I've seen this happen, it's happened to me, it's a symptom of poor communication and a referee prioritising his idea of the game over player satisfaction).If they are only dealing with a few elementals, then keeping this secret from the players is more viable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aenghus, post: 6013909, member: 2656"] Take for instance the example of a PC specialising in fire damage. If the adventure you are running with this houserule involves fighting with lots of fire immune elementals, that PC is going to be less useful, maybe a lot less useful, and probably much less fun to play. Houserules like this should be known to the players, IMO, if they significantly affect the game. While this takes away a little discovery, that sort of discovery can only happen once, I personally would like to avoid discoveries like is "My PC is useless for this campaign, I'm going to act as drain on group resources, or need to roll up a new PC" (I've seen this happen, it's happened to me, it's a symptom of poor communication and a referee prioritising his idea of the game over player satisfaction). If they are only dealing with a few elementals, then keeping this secret from the players is more viable. [/QUOTE]

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