Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I never claimed you couldn't decide what you want for your game. We are discussing whether or not a DM(any DM) can come to a compromise with a player(any player) about something you consider to be binary. The answer is 100% yes. They can.No. We are discussing a hypothetical GM deciding what is right for the game they want to run and since you tried to claim that I couldn't decide thatI pointed out that I very much can when I am the GM but would be wildly out of bounds when I am a player.
Your little Timmy example is apples and oranges to what I am saying. So I'm going to rework it so that it's apples and apples.Little Timmy has no more engaged in a compromise with santa when he unwraps only an xbox on christmas morning than the player in your example where the GM shifts from not allowing 2014 stuff to onlly allowing half of what was fixed.... Both Timmy & the player had no ability to give themselves the thing they wanted but unlike Timmy the player has the option to say "this is not the game for me I'm going to find a table that allows 2014 stuff mixed wuth 2024 stuff".
Little Timmy writes to Santa that he wants an X-box and an Ipad. Santa wakes little Timmy up when he gets to Timmy's house and says, "I'm sorry Timmy, I wasn't planning on giving you any electronics at all. However, @TwoSix was very naughty to his parents last night and is getting coal, so I have an extra X-box. If you would like, I can give you that, but not the Ipad." Timmy then says, "Okay. I'll take the X-box since I've really been wanting it. Thanks!! Could you bring me an Ipad next year?"
That is compromise. Both sides moved to the middle of their starting positions, just like the DM(Santa) and the player(Timmy) did with the smite example I posted upthread.