Spending 10 minutes looking up a rule or item or whatever that nobody expected to need or bothered to prepare. It's very flow breaking to be mid battle and someone goes, "oh I have the magic amulet of such and such from 8 sessions ago, what did that do again? I think it's useful here"
As a DM I always establish that I will make something up that makes sense at the time and for next session we will use the real rule if it's different. I feel this makes players be more conscious of what they can do as sometimes my interpretation of the item is incorrect and less powerful which nobody enjoys.
If someone is opposed to such a thing, I think it's reasonable to expect them to read everything about their character that they want to use. Obviously if it's important or a complicated situation people can look stuff up but I'm not interested in whether I got a +/-2 modifier wrong in the moment.
Luckily I only play with friends so it's never a big deal
Spending 10 minutes looking up a rule or item or whatever that nobody expected to need or bothered to prepare. It's very flow breaking to be mid battle and someone goes, "oh I have the magic amulet of such and such from 8 sessions ago, what did that do again? I think it's useful here"
As a DM I always establish that I will make something up that makes sense at the time and for next session we will use the real rule if it's different. I feel this makes players be more conscious of what they can do as sometimes my interpretation of the item is incorrect and less powerful which nobody enjoys.
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If someone is opposed to such a thing, I think it's reasonable to expect them to read everything about their character that they want to use. Obviously if it's important or a complicated situation people can look stuff up but I'm not interested in whether I got a +/-2 modifier wrong in the moment.
Luckily I only play with friends so it's never a big deal