Quote Originally Posted by Quietus View Post
I put out encounters that aren't strictly by the book partly because of players like you; People who memorize every rule in the book, then expect everything to work exactly like they think it should. I'm sorry, but your character lives in a fantastic world. Some things are going to work differently than they expect, just to keep you, the player, guessing. It's no fun for me if a player automatically heads for the "off button" on whatever monster is featured in the current encounter.
You'd love me as a player, then. I've got every monster in every book (that I own) memorized, and hope the DM surprises me with something new. (I mostly memorized them so that, as a DM, I can run an on-the-spot encounter without looking up stuff and wasting valuable game time. Especially since I only get to play once a month or so.)