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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9816648" data-attributes="member: 29398">The time to try out rule changes is in one-off trial-run games.I guess there's one element that hasn't been mentioned yet: for me, as my campaigns go on for a very long time, any ruling I make is something we all might have to live with for ten years or more.  Thus, it's incumbent on me to get it right, or as right as I can, the first time.The other thing that demands that rulings, once made, be adhered to is consistency of setting.  You're not just ruling on how the game is played, you're ruling on how the game world functions.If the other characters, in character, decide to punt that character out of the party, that's fine.  But IMO is it not, in any way, the DM's arbitrary call to make as to who gets to be in the party and who doesn't.Again this comes down to differentiating and separating player and character.  Just because, for example, I'm playing a horrible misogynist as a character does not in any way mean that's how I feel in real life.</blockquote>