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<blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 5692550" data-attributes="member: 41187"><p>No it doesn't. It goes hand in hand with "The DM is always right <strong><em>at the table</em></strong>. Get through the session and <u>then</u> settle the matter like adults."</p><p></p><p>The players are not "always wrong" (and I've never heard anyone except the most socially horrific people claim otherwise; so, not a common attitude in my experience). When the game is in play and players are arguing with the table-ruling, the players are in the wrong. The GM is always right the same way the referee or umpire of a sporting event is always right - he might have made a bad call, but once it is over it is over and everyone has to deal with it. (Hopefully the GM is corrected after the fact and learns from his mistake, but that's not always the case. Hence, this thread.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Absolutely true. But the middle of the freaking session is not the time for criticism, no matter how much a player may want to give it. I've lost count of the number of times a player has tried to correct me about some rule, and been flat wrong because things were not what the player thought they were. Conversely, I've lost count of the number of mistakes I've made, though I can count the ones I've <em>repeated</em> (currently 31 - mostly minor rules flubs; not bad for 8 years of GMing).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ValhallaGH, post: 5692550, member: 41187"] No it doesn't. It goes hand in hand with "The DM is always right [b][i]at the table[/i][/b]. Get through the session and [u]then[/u] settle the matter like adults." The players are not "always wrong" (and I've never heard anyone except the most socially horrific people claim otherwise; so, not a common attitude in my experience). When the game is in play and players are arguing with the table-ruling, the players are in the wrong. The GM is always right the same way the referee or umpire of a sporting event is always right - he might have made a bad call, but once it is over it is over and everyone has to deal with it. (Hopefully the GM is corrected after the fact and learns from his mistake, but that's not always the case. Hence, this thread.) Absolutely true. But the middle of the freaking session is not the time for criticism, no matter how much a player may want to give it. I've lost count of the number of times a player has tried to correct me about some rule, and been flat wrong because things were not what the player thought they were. Conversely, I've lost count of the number of mistakes I've made, though I can count the ones I've [I]repeated[/I] (currently 31 - mostly minor rules flubs; not bad for 8 years of GMing). [/QUOTE]
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