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post Sep 8 2006, 04:19 PM
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Last night, I just played one of my first sessions of D&D. When we got into combat, the other players started rules lawyering like hell, and the GM didn't go, "You know what, fuck it, you're ruining the flow of the game." He actually looked every single rule up, which made a four-round combat take around two hours.

Does this happen to you?
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- emo samurai   How much do you haggle over rules?   Sep 8 2006, 04:19 PM
- - Backgammon   Not really. I think that in general the rules repr...   Sep 8 2006, 04:35 PM
- - Ryu   Rules haggleing is supposed to take place after ga...   Sep 8 2006, 04:54 PM
- - Kagetenshi   It generally doesn't happen with us because we...   Sep 8 2006, 04:54 PM
- - James McMurray   It happens way too often with my group, although n...   Sep 8 2006, 05:02 PM
- - Critias   Luckily, my regular gaming groups (I take part in ...   Sep 8 2006, 05:30 PM
- - Telion   In my gaming experience I don't think I've...   Sep 8 2006, 06:05 PM
- - eidolon   It's not dead. You just have to have access t...   Sep 8 2006, 06:22 PM
- - James McMurray   If you're thinking of playing AD&D 1e or 2...   Sep 8 2006, 06:23 PM
- - Telion   I always did have alot of fun with 2nd ed, 3rd see...   Sep 8 2006, 06:36 PM
- - Shrike30   I'm working my way through the most recent Hac...   Sep 8 2006, 07:18 PM
- - eidolon   I didn't read it in depth, but my skim through...   Sep 8 2006, 07:30 PM
- - James McMurray   Shrike: It's definitely more like 3e then 3e w...   Sep 8 2006, 07:46 PM
- - eidolon   I seem to remember honor in the 2nd edition system...   Sep 8 2006, 07:54 PM
- - James McMurray   Honor (from Oriental Adventures) was all about how...   Sep 8 2006, 08:03 PM
- - Butterblume   In my early days, I often haggled about rules, esp...   Sep 8 2006, 08:21 PM
- - James McMurray   Do your players frequently forget you after the ga...   Sep 8 2006, 08:30 PM
- - Geekkake   QUOTE (James McMurray) Do your players frequently ...   Sep 8 2006, 08:32 PM
- - SuperFly   My players know that when they game under me, I re...   Sep 8 2006, 08:35 PM
- - Butterblume   QUOTE (Geekkake)QUOTE (James McMurray @ Sep 8...   Sep 8 2006, 09:18 PM
- - Dog   It's very important for the GM to be consisten...   Sep 9 2006, 06:45 AM
- - Conskill   My players are fairly good about this when I GM. ...   Sep 9 2006, 06:57 AM
- - Inu   Rules ARE important, particularly for consistency....   Sep 10 2006, 02:33 AM
- - eidolon   QUOTE (James McMurray @ Sep 8 2006, 03:03 PM)...   Sep 10 2006, 02:59 AM
- - Dog   QUOTE (Inu) Rules ARE important.... I don...   Sep 10 2006, 06:05 PM
- - Hell Hound   QUOTE (Butterblume)... Someday I realized that our...   Sep 11 2006, 01:08 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   I "haggle" over rules without any limits...   Sep 11 2006, 10:51 PM
- - emo samurai   How long do your games take, though?   Sep 12 2006, 01:27 AM
- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (emo samurai) How long do your games take, t...   Sep 12 2006, 01:47 AM
- - James McMurray   QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) I "haggle" over ru...   Sep 12 2006, 02:32 AM
- - James McMurray   I think I should probably add a bit to my earlier ...   Sep 12 2006, 02:41 AM
- - Wounded Ronin   That requires having generally relaxed players. I...   Sep 13 2006, 02:12 AM
- - Critias   The next time one of my games gets bogged down in ...   Sep 13 2006, 05:51 AM
- - James McMurray   QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) That requires having general...   Sep 13 2006, 12:59 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (James McMurray) QUOTE (Wounded Ronin ...   Sep 14 2006, 12:20 AM
- - Herald of Verjigorm   QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) But how can you be laid back...   Sep 14 2006, 01:09 AM
- - Dawnshadow   If someone, even the GM, is making calls that are ...   Sep 14 2006, 01:14 AM
- - James McMurray   What Herald said. I can sit back and let them ar...   Sep 14 2006, 03:13 AM
- - Kagetenshi   I was about to get on your case about "maybe...   Sep 14 2006, 03:40 AM
- - Dog   So what's everyone's opinion on this?: ma...   Sep 14 2006, 04:08 AM
- - James McMurray   QUOTE (Kagetenshi) I was about to get on your case...   Sep 14 2006, 01:30 PM


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