Helpful Unwritten Rules of DnD

[Bluydee]

I've decided we need to be better at helping newcomers just starting to play 3.5. That is why here we have a rules compendium of things all new players must follow.

1. Never split the party.

a. No, not even then.

[Sidmen]

1 b. Yes, it is more fun to split the party.

[Curmudgeon]

2. Unless you really know what you're doing. In which case, the Rogue with Hide in Plain Sight really can scout ahead solo with lower total risk than if the party stays together.

3. Don't bunch up. You're just inviting a ranged area attack.

[Deox]

3. Don't bunch up. You're just inviting a ranged area attack.

I call that "Fireball Formation".

[Azoth]

4. You can never have too much rope

5. Always carry at least 3 different ways to start a fire.

[Alent]

6: There are very few problems that can't be solved by a Push-broom with an Eleven Foot pole, Sovereign Glue, Universal Solvent, or an implausible combination thereof.

[Svata]

7. If you have a couple thousand gold you don't know what to do with, remember, you can never have enough Feather Token: Trees.

[atemu1234]

X. Look out for Kobolds. If you see them when you're ever higher than level one, you're screwed.
i. Even at level one, you're basically screwed.

[Hamste]

9 Do not sunder the loot.

[atemu1234]

9 Do not sunder the loot.

a) No, not even when that loot is a god eating chunk of sentient, malevolent crystal.
i) Especially not when it's that.

[Blackhawk748]

10. Do not assume that goblins are pants-on-head stupid, it may be a trick.
11. Dragons are not big bundles of XP and treasure.
12. Owlbears, while silly looking, are still a bear, as such do not poke one when its sleeping.

[atemu1234]

Z) If you run into a monster, never assume the fight's going to be easy.

[Blackhawk748]

Z) If you run into a monster, never assume the fight's going to be easy.

A) Especially if its a Crab the size of a horse

[weckar]

13) Friends don't let friends play Monks

[atemu1234]

13) Friends don't let friends play Monks

Sometimes with Phaethon. Sometimes.

[Blackhawk748]

13) Friends don't let friends play Monks

A) Unless that friend knows EXACTLY what they are doing
AA) Sometimes not even then

[Svata]

AAA) Rubik is always clear to play a monk.

14) Don't be a douche to the other players, and especially, to the DM.

[Blackhawk748]

14) Don't be a douche to the other players, and especially, to the DM.

14a) No not even then

[Raven777]

Ð) Don't stick your hand in the hole.
..) Or any part of your body, for that matter.

[Blackhawk748]

Ð) Don't stick your hand in the hole.
..) Or any part of your body, for that matter.

wha.... i...... you.......

[weckar]

Now that I think of it, on a more serious note:

15) Elect a party leader you trust, and stick with them. Nothing slows a game down as much as an argument about what to do next.

[Brookshw]

16) remember, if you can do it, so can an enemy.

[Pilo]

17) The game is not made for you to have fun, It is made for every member of the group to have fun. Even that player hidden behind walls who is sending things to kill/mutilate/boil/evicerate your character and steal/destroy her/his stuff.

[weckar]

17b) Then again; any intent of PvP you might have will make PvP stand for 'Please Vacate Property'.

[Chronos]

18) Every member of the party should have some way of dealing with enemies at range. Even if it's just a nonmagical sling, and you don't have any feats to support it. My last group, none of the fighter-types ever carried a bow, and thus were always consistently stymied by flying enemies or enemies on the other side of a chasm.

[Raven777]

wha.... i...... you.......

Trust me on that one.

[Blackhawk748]

Trust me on that one.

the sad thing is is that i've seen that rule being broken............... it ended badly.

[nedz]

20. Always have three back up plans

These plan should be

1. Running away
2. Running away more quickly
3. Running away more quickly than everyone else

[Venger]

Ð) Don't stick your hand in the hole.
..) Or any part of your body, for that matter.

So that's how Otyugh Hole gives you Iron Will...

Q) Familiarize yourself with the tier list. Despite what you see in webcomics/cartoons/etc as far as media portrayal of the game goes, all classes are NOT equal to one another and if you and your friends are more or less on the same level, it'll lead to a better experience instead of angel summoner and bmx bandit.

[malonkey1]

So that's how Otyugh Hole gives you Iron Will...

Q) Familiarize yourself with the tier list. Despite what you see in webcomics/cartoons/etc as far as media portrayal of the game goes, all classes are NOT equal to one another and if you and your friends are more or less on the same level, it'll lead to a better experience instead of angel summoner and bmx bandit.

Which is, concidentally, the title of my failed pilot.