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I literally made this account today. I have no idea how to do that. But I'm open to it

@WakiNadiVellir He is a druid and currently has his powers dampened because he murdered all life in a swamp by striking it with lightning twice. He wanted to mend his armor which is homebrew supped up leather armor. I made him roll to see if he could do the cantrip successfully because of these factors. But he wont listen he just gets mad and claims that's not how cantrips work.

As I said I was following the lead of another dm who is now a player. He made the rules up as he went and no one questioned it. I'm starting to realize that my party thinks I'm a push over and if they don't like something they can just bully me till they get their way. I don't want to be the bad guy and put my foot down. I want to find a common ground as we were just making it up and pulling from the source material when we didn't know. But honestly I might just stop dming.

Well the problem is that its homebrew. I followed the lead of another player who ran a campaign before me. He changed a lot of the rules and when I tried to introduce the actual rules I kept getting "well its homebrew" so I am stuck in an impasse.

When I say "I don't know the rules" I mean that as down to the very detail. I count find the spell exactly because the spell can only mend pieces of items like chain or a torn cloak. It says nothing about armor. So I was more making him roll to see how well he repaired his already broken armor that had been torn to shreds. His armor rating was a 23 and it was down to 2. Yes if he chose to use it more then once he could have gotten it fully repaired but he didn't. He decided to question the rules and me as the dm.

I don't make them roll to activate or prepare the cantrip. I make them roll to see if they can land a hit or in the case of repairing armor to see how well they can use mend. I don't know the rules and even in the Players Handbook it doesn't specify exactly how cantrips work. I feel that the cantrip is not an 100% going to hit a target or do exactly what the player expects. That you still have to be able to hit the target.

No that's great. I feel that was important information and I am open to any comment or help

It was a cantrip called "mend" and he was trying to use it to repair his armor which had been broken. I made him roll to see how well he repaired it and he got a 2 so it didnt repair much. He went behind my back and spoke to another player about how it was bullshit and "thats not how cantrips work" although he was able to cast the spell just not well