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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 9128354" data-attributes="member: 996">TBH, I consider mere fairness in a ruleset to be too low a bar.&nbsp; Even so, D&amp;D has only met it for a minority of it's nigh-50 year history. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />As far as DM rulings, they're traditionally central to D&amp;D.&nbsp; Downright hallowed, I'd say.&nbsp; And, more broadly, for the whole TTRPG hobby, the role of the DM/Judge/GM/Storyteller/whatever has similarly been placed above that of the rules and players, both.&nbsp; But, that early pattern of DM rulings was only because D&amp;D started out with such amatuerish, baroque, and self-contradictory rules...&nbsp; And it didn't improve much for, like, 25 years or so.&nbsp; When 3.0 burst on the scene, &quot;saving&quot; D&amp;D from the demise of TSR, making it open-source, and incidentally having rules just clear and coherent enough for the community to identify a 'RaW' meaning in most cases, that changed, much to the chagrin of Grognards.&nbsp; Wile it took another edition and a vicious edition war to finally make Grognard wrath fully felt, 5e did, in the end, return to rules that demanded frequent DM rulings.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And so it was in the time of the beginning, and so it ever shall be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 9128354, member: 996"] TBH, I consider mere fairness in a ruleset to be too low a bar. Even so, D&D has only met it for a minority of it's nigh-50 year history. 🤷 As far as DM rulings, they're traditionally central to D&D. Downright hallowed, I'd say. And, more broadly, for the whole TTRPG hobby, the role of the DM/Judge/GM/Storyteller/whatever has similarly been placed above that of the rules and players, both. But, that early pattern of DM rulings was only because D&D started out with such amatuerish, baroque, and self-contradictory rules... And it didn't improve much for, like, 25 years or so. When 3.0 burst on the scene, "saving" D&D from the demise of TSR, making it open-source, and incidentally having rules just clear and coherent enough for the community to identify a 'RaW' meaning in most cases, that changed, much to the chagrin of Grognards. Wile it took another edition and a vicious edition war to finally make Grognard wrath fully felt, 5e did, in the end, return to rules that demanded frequent DM rulings. ;) And so it was in the time of the beginning, and so it ever shall be. [/QUOTE]

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