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Eh, I've seen a few too many people (not a huge number, but more than I'd like) to try and use history or connections to make themselves...

Like I said, some of it also has to do with what kind of games you're used to. I'd suggest that games where someone has an established...

At least as far as a character goes, if you're thorough it can well be a case that nothing you haven't already established ends up being...

Yeah, but folks who insist that feelings need to be substantiated with facts are extremely un-funny.

She often does. :)

There's always been a divide about this; years ago we even had a set of terms for it (Design at Start (DAS) compared to Develop in Play...

I was thinking of a case where the group goes through their old village in the course of the game, and suddenly who and what their...

Me being me, I'd rather more bluntly answer "Yes, and we're allowed to tell you you're being a jerk in how you do it." But then, as my...

Yeah. IME, most rules issues are not because people are cheating, but because they don't understand the rules (or because a rule isn't...

It might be because my tables are made up primarily of other DMs, but if we see someone make a rules mistake, we call it right out. The...

If I spot a rules mistake mid-stream I'll normally point it out right then, regardless of whose favor it's in. Unless the particular GM...

I tend to do it immediately because its too common for people to view it as precedent. Unless I just flat out miss it of course (I just...

May be, but if the game system as I understand it seems to make something impractical, I think its the GMs duty to make it clear that's...

I don't know how it tends to be these days, but at least at one time the important word in this sentence would have been "should".

Agreed. This is what I was getting at with a previous comment about not enough weight being given to player idiosyncrasies, but you've...