I don’t have a lot of DND experience, but I’ve stumbled on a few scenarios reading and watching content online where I can’t tell what is appropriate play.
For example:
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The DM describes the room pretty well, but doesn’t explicitly mention the existence or non-existence of a chandelier. There might be one, in addition to the other lighting. It’s not clear.
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A PC says: I shoot down the chandelier with a flaming arrow.
Is that appropriate?
On one hand, I have no reason to reject the existence of the chandelier. It’s fine with me.
On the other hand, the player just fabricated the setting, which isn’t something that “the character” could do.
I want to say it seems okay to some degree, but it also seems to be stepping on the toes of the DM a little bit and opening the doors for players to set up situations for themselves which could undermine the DM.
How do you handle these situations? What aspects of the environment, if any, can the PCs fabricate?
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r/DnD I don’t have a lot of DND experience, but I’ve stumbled on a few scenarios reading and watching content online where I can’t tell what is appropriate play. For example: The DM describes the room pretty well, but doesn’t explicitly mention the existence or non-existence of a chandelier. There might be one, in addition to the other lighting. It’s not clear. A PC says: I shoot down the chandelier with a flaming arrow. Is that appropriate? On one hand, I have no reason to reject the existence of the chandelier. It’s fine with me. On the other hand, the player just fabricated the setting, which isn’t something that “the character” could do. I want to say it seems okay to some degree, but it also seems to be stepping on the toes of the DM a little bit and opening the doors for players to set up situations for themselves which could undermine the DM. How do you handle these situations? What aspects of the environment, if any, can the PCs fabricate? submitted by /u/nerd866 [link] [comments]
I don’t have a lot of DND experience, but I’ve stumbled on a few scenarios reading and watching content online where I can’t tell what is appropriate play.
For example:
-
The DM describes the room pretty well, but doesn’t explicitly mention the existence or non-existence of a chandelier. There might be one, in addition to the other lighting. It’s not clear.
-
A PC says: I shoot down the chandelier with a flaming arrow.
Is that appropriate?
On one hand, I have no reason to reject the existence of the chandelier. It’s fine with me.
On the other hand, the player just fabricated the setting, which isn’t something that “the character” could do.
I want to say it seems okay to some degree, but it also seems to be stepping on the toes of the DM a little bit and opening the doors for players to set up situations for themselves which could undermine the DM.
How do you handle these situations? What aspects of the environment, if any, can the PCs fabricate?
submitted by /u/nerd866
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