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The Rule of Cool Has Limits (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

One solution is to make clear that once the PCs start using "creative" solutions, so will the NPCs. The players usually don't want the game to devolve to that point either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Sure you can do create water in his mouth. Next turn as his free action he swallows, then he attacks you, hits, and you take 2d6 dmg.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yup. When I DM my rule of thumb had always been "if you have to argue the point, then it's just not valid".

We're not struggling creativity, we're just cutting off rules mangling like this situation.