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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5324824" data-attributes="member: 21169">Eh, you know how it is on the internet. We're a bunch of 'armchair GMs' expressing our views about what a GM ought to have done or do. Threads lengthen, tempers get lost, opinions polarise. People start throwing around absolutes and terms like 'demand', 'bad GM' and 'bad player'. It can get out of hand.I think it's perfectly reasonable for a GM to always follow the rules. I think it's perfectly reasonable for him to change lots of them (though not all of them). I think it's perfectly reasonable to make temporary rulings when a rule is in doubt, to speed up the flow of the game, in fact I do this a lot myself, I'm very comfortable with it. I think it's perfectly reasonable for a GM to look up a rule when it's in doubt, especially when a PC's life is at stake. I think it's perfectly reasonable for a GM to overrule a rule at the table, if he feels it is giving the wrong result - unfun, unrealistic, unbalanced, anti-story, whatever.I think it's perfectly reasonable for a GM to ask the players what they think when doing any of the above.Basically I think everything is reasonable, or can be, and we often go too far on the internet and slip into various forms of OneTrueWay-ism.</blockquote>