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<blockquote data-quote="Forrester" data-source="post: 569779" data-attributes="member: 1279">AHA!Sir Whisker's post reminds me of a complete and total screw-the-player ruling I made awhile ago . . . a LONG while ago, as it was my very first &quot;campaign&quot; (though I am loathe to call it that). I think I was maybe 13 years old, if that. This was Basic D&amp;D. A guy created a 1st level wizard, and as best I can recall, I concluded that:1) He got to cast one 1st level spell a day2) He needed to cast Read Magic to read his spellbook3) Thus, he had to memorize Read Magic every day. As his only spell. Yeah, that was the best <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=":)" />. He was quickly nicknamed &quot;Read Magic&quot; by the characters . . . &quot;Hey, 'Read Magic', what are you doing hiding back there&quot;, and so on. Of course, because he didn't do anything but cower in the back, he survived where other characters did not, and eventually made it to 5th level. I think I killed him the last session with a white dragon, just to be fair to the other characters I'd killed. Yeah, those were the days <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=":)" />. I'm a little better now . . .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Forrester, post: 569779, member: 1279"] [b]AHA![/b] Sir Whisker's post reminds me of a complete and total screw-the-player ruling I made awhile ago . . . a LONG while ago, as it was my very first "campaign" (though I am loathe to call it that). I think I was maybe 13 years old, if that. This was Basic D&D. A guy created a 1st level wizard, and as best I can recall, I concluded that: 1) He got to cast one 1st level spell a day 2) He needed to cast Read Magic to read his spellbook 3) Thus, he had to memorize Read Magic every day. As his only spell. Yeah, that was the best :). He was quickly nicknamed "Read Magic" by the characters . . . "Hey, 'Read Magic', what are you doing hiding back there", and so on. Of course, because he didn't do anything but cower in the back, he survived where other characters did not, and eventually made it to 5th level. I think I killed him the last session with a white dragon, just to be fair to the other characters I'd killed. Yeah, those were the days :). I'm a little better now . . . [/QUOTE]

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