[galraen]

I don't know if this is too far out of context, if it is just delete it Siberys.

I Iand my fellow D&Ders back in the day) always considered the most important words in the DMG were on the last page. I can't remember the actual wording but it amounted to: There are no hard rules in D&D, the books are guidelines to be altered to suit the needs of each DM and her/his players.

That was something we all took very seriously indeed. I find it personally ironic that one of the first 'rules' we changed are still in place even today. When we got the D&D bug we rushed out and spent a fortune buying all the books, icluding the first edition of Deities and Demigods,. As it happened we'd already started a Norse based campaign, and we had two parties running on alternate weeks (with two DMs taking turns). Each party had a cleric, one of Freyr and one of Tyr, so when we looked them up in D&G and found that their holy symbols were a Two0Handed Sword and a Longsword, the idiotic blunt weapon limitiation went straight out of the windwo, with no dissenting voices. I mean how can you tell a Cleric that he/she can't wield her/his holy symbol?

OK, geriatric remeniscing over.