| Quint |
I've tried out several gaming groups since moving to a new area, trying to find a group whose style matches my own but I'm having a great deal of trouble.
I've found that very few people are interested in following the rules as written in the Pathfinder Core book. I'm always the one who interjects something like (a recent example) "You can't drink an infusion and attack in the same turn", despite the DM and other player not being aware of the rule breaking.
Our last meeting, the DM wasnt looking up DCs for various skill checks, he'd just let it succeed if the result was particularly high. An example being one character's attempt at using an Acrobatics check when moving through an enemy occupied square. His result was an 18 and the DM deemed it a success despite neither of them checking what the target DC should be.
I only want a level playing field for everyone by following the rules. I'll look a rule up even if its not to our party's benefit. I'm unsure of how everyone else in the group feels about my actions but I don't think I want to play with a group that doesnt look up and follow the rules.
I understand that DMs make up DCs or rules on the fly (I've done it as a DM) and by doing so, the game doesn't get bogged down with constant rule consulting. Also, we all are new to Pathfinder and are still learning the changes, but it seems like I'm the only one concerned with this.
I'm the only person that has a set of books at the game. The DM relies on his laptop for PDFs of the books, but doesn't consult it very often.
Any advice of how to handle this? This seems to be very common lately.
Of course I could just DM my own game, but I've always preferred to play as a PC.