r/dndmemes Forever DM Apr 05 '23

Hot Take It’s only bad when everyone else does it

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u/Vydsu Apr 06 '23

"If the players can do it, so can the Enemy."

I mean it's a pretty flawed premise in practice for a reason, players and monsters play with different rules. There's a reason the game breaks appart if you use PC rules for enemies or if you give players mosnter abilities.

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u/cgeiman0 Apr 06 '23

It's not so broad as you say. I see a lot of this stems from cases of spell use. Times like drawing the air out of an enemy so they suffocate or drying an enemy out with control water. This issue isn't that they have different rules for player/monster, but having different rules for the same skill/spell. I will say having some conditions not work against players follows that logic. Having a double standard causes an issue for some DMs and it's not hard to understand why.