Posted By Count Dooku on 10/13/2006 12:21 PM
So he got mad because the party defeated the monster?

What was he trying to "win" the game?

Posted By Count Dooku on 10/13/2006 1:37 PM
DM love to cackle with evil glee and tell the players he cant wait to use the 3 Pit Fiends he pulled from his Bloodwar cases...
But its a bluff tactic to make the players sweat...DM really hate to see PCs die.

Posted By TYGRHobbes on 10/16/2006 2:47 PM
We have a DM that looks at all our character sheets to specifically target our weaknesses.

Posted By gss_000 on 11/08/2006 9:05 AM
That reminds me of a person I hate to play with who wants D&D to be as realistic as possible and takes "what my character would do" to a rediculous extreme. For instance, he loves to play rangers, and never walks around with his bow strung because in real life this would destroy the weapon. So every combat he starts by restringing his bow, even when there is nothing in the rules for stuff like that. That's one of his less annoying habits. I wish he'djust relax a little.

Posted By Sulaco on 09/26/2006 9:47 AM
Well, there is a poster on the Wizards boards right now who maintains that you can ready an action to attack someone who makes and attack of opportunity against you. His reasoning is that it is not specifically disallowed so it must be allowed. That seems pretty darn ridiculous to me.

Posted By Bert the Troll on 10/02/2006 8:54 PM
If it was first edition, monster didn't need to eat, breath, defecate or anything else while they waited for adventurers in thier 10x10 rooms.

Posted By TYGRHobbes on 10/16/2006 2:47 PM
We have a DM that looks at all our character sheets to specifically target our weaknesses. Needless to say, us players are about to give the DM the boot. To give an example of what he is like:

I entered the campaign as it was in progress so I had to make a couple of 13th level characters. He only allows the core books. So I made a wizard. He said I HAD to be a specialist. Ok no problem, I became an evoker. I forgot what prohibited schools I chose but I had Finger of Death as one of my spells. We faced a large dragon and I killed it with one shot thanks to Finger of Death. Ok, here's the messed up part. He asked for my character sheet in between sessions. When we played next, he had changed my prohibited schools and what spelsl I had known in my spellbook. You guessed it, I no longer had Necromancy as one of the schools I could cast. He also changed the other prohibited school to enchantment. He also completely redid all my feats on both my characters. That was the only time that happened but it still was bad.

Now I can related to a DM that likes to 'win' all the time. Someone mentioned that people that lose in real life are prone to do this. Well I totally agree! It's just funny every week finding out what ways he's devised to make our spells and abilities useless against the monsters. So far I've come up with ways to still defeat him with my wizard and I can tell he hates it. I probably give it one or two more sessions before we dump the whole thing.

Posted By gss_000 on 11/20/2006 9:11 PM
Although it can go in the opposite direction, too. When you think about it, even pesants live in luxury. Everyone has a 5' x 10' bed. That's huge! I think someone figured out if you want to make a house that's really giant sized, just go by the standard room dimensions in most mods now.

Posted By Skyscraper on 11/21/2006 8:54 AM
Yeah, creatures take up a 5' X 5' space when they stand vertically and fight. Otherwise, creatures don't need 5' X 5'. And the bed doesn't need to be 10' long (although i wouldn't mind such a bed myself).

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