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<blockquote data-quote="Emiricol" data-source="post: 565954" data-attributes="member: 469">I'm more into the story than the rules, to be honest.&nbsp; I like balance, though.Anyway, I have recruited my rules-laywer player (who is very diplomatic about his rules-lawyering, which is nice) to be sort of a semi assistant DM.&nbsp; He handles the stuff I don't, though honestly most of my rulings boil down to an ability roll, a 2 or 4 point circumstance bonus or penalty, or synnergy bonuses with skills someone has.If you've got a rules-lawyer, and he's either capable of being discrete as mine is, or trainable <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=":)" />, then use them!&nbsp; I love it when my players lighten my load in any way.Worst bone-headed DM call?&nbsp; Back in 1E, we found a figurine of Orcus that summoned orcus and controlled him for a single task (like a geas, only more so).&nbsp; DM didn't even try to make him use his other resources against the party, or twist wording, or anything.&nbsp; It was lame.&nbsp; At the time, he just said, &quot;well, this IS an EPIC campaign, dudes.&quot;&nbsp; He was one of those with a book in his head and we were just there to read our lines so to speak.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emiricol, post: 565954, member: 469"] I'm more into the story than the rules, to be honest. I like balance, though. Anyway, I have recruited my rules-laywer player (who is very diplomatic about his rules-lawyering, which is nice) to be sort of a semi assistant DM. He handles the stuff I don't, though honestly most of my rulings boil down to an ability roll, a 2 or 4 point circumstance bonus or penalty, or synnergy bonuses with skills someone has. If you've got a rules-lawyer, and he's either capable of being discrete as mine is, or trainable :), then use them! I love it when my players lighten my load in any way. Worst bone-headed DM call? Back in 1E, we found a figurine of Orcus that summoned orcus and controlled him for a single task (like a geas, only more so). DM didn't even try to make him use his other resources against the party, or twist wording, or anything. It was lame. At the time, he just said, "well, this IS an EPIC campaign, dudes." He was one of those with a book in his head and we were just there to read our lines so to speak. [/QUOTE]

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