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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7469425" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Not so much, no.</p><p></p><p>There are at least two sides to every argument, sure. </p><p></p><p> Those are just two extremes of the range of opinions, I'm sure. I do feel the former is pretty fair, personally: it's just my experience that DMs who do a decent job are usually overriding the system one way or another (fudging secretly or openly, modding the rules up front or ruling notwithstanding the rules they go), and I find when I run D&D that it's usually better to trust your skills/experience as a DM rather than trust the system & the dice. </p><p>But there are many ways of coping.</p><p></p><p> I think there's an ideal of impartiality involved. It'd be rooted in the game's early wargaming history, IMHO, a tradition left over from when more complex wargames would use a 'judge,' an impartial 3rd party to fairly settle issues between competing players. While judge and GM are analogous (and still synonymous, apparently, in some regions), they're not identical: the judge must be impartial, because he's facilitating a competition, while the GM is facilitating a cooperative challenge (or even a storytelling exercise).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7469425, member: 996"] Not so much, no. There are at least two sides to every argument, sure. Those are just two extremes of the range of opinions, I'm sure. I do feel the former is pretty fair, personally: it's just my experience that DMs who do a decent job are usually overriding the system one way or another (fudging secretly or openly, modding the rules up front or ruling notwithstanding the rules they go), and I find when I run D&D that it's usually better to trust your skills/experience as a DM rather than trust the system & the dice. But there are many ways of coping. I think there's an ideal of impartiality involved. It'd be rooted in the game's early wargaming history, IMHO, a tradition left over from when more complex wargames would use a 'judge,' an impartial 3rd party to fairly settle issues between competing players. While judge and GM are analogous (and still synonymous, apparently, in some regions), they're not identical: the judge must be impartial, because he's facilitating a competition, while the GM is facilitating a cooperative challenge (or even a storytelling exercise). [/QUOTE]
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