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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5325923" data-attributes="member: 58416">I think there are some important points to be found here.  Yes, a good GM will -at times- make judgement calls.  Sometimes those calls won't even be because of a problem with the rules, but because he feels it is best for the game.  However, I can see why somebody would be upset about the magic door thing.  If I have a power which states it works a certain way and then the GM suddenly says my power doesn't work that way via GM fiat, I might be a little upset about that.  I wouldn't argue during the game, and I would go along with it, but I'd still also be a little bit annoyed by it if there were no other explanation other than 'the GM says so.' For me, I would somewhat disagree that that particular example was necessarily for good effect.  On the other hand, I was not there, and I did not listen to the podcast, so, in all honesty, I don't know the full context of the situation.  I'm starting to veer off topic though. In response to the OP, I don't believe rpgs are the only place where referee interpretations and judgement calls happen.  I'm a pretty big hockey fan, and there are plenty of times when I've watched a game where someone wasn't called for a penalty because the referees wanted to allow a good game to continue to flow.  I've also seen situations in which a particularly problematic player was penalized seemingly at-will just to get him off of the ice.  Likewise, I've seen fights be allowed to go on for a while before they were broken up. From a more personal point of view, I've had times when I wasn't given a speeding ticket due to the situation.  A particular example which comes to mind is when I was trying to get a friend home to get their inhaler because they were having an asthma attack.  I got about a block from her house and was pulled over for speeding.  The officer let me go without giving me a ticket due to how he interpreted the situation.</blockquote>

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