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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6128677" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>And here's an answer - If someone poses such a question as "can the GM cheat?", is it only polite to answer with ambiguity and hedging for fear of the answer of "yes" (and the corresponding reasoning) being too incendiary or strident to digest dispassionately? Or, if someone poses that question in good faith (presumably looking for yes answers, and reasoning, just as they are for no answers), is it reasonable to divulge the philosophical disposition of my table as unequivocally "yes" and the reasoning of "it cheats players out of the meaningful impact of their decision-making on a strategic/tactical level and the corresponding narrative imposition that their decisions are supposed to drive?" In this case, mischief as "misrepresenting the player's capacity for (i) meaningful impact via strategic and tactical decisions and (ii) corresponding narrative imposition" by the vessel of illegitimate fortune resolution and circumvention of the weight of PC build choices on that equation. </p><p></p><p>Mechanically, that is my take and I stand by the reasoning. Nonetheless, this is a leisure pursuit, so, naturally, different strokes for different folks is implicitly appended at the bottom of every post where an issue is presented that might yield discord within our hobby. You can disagree and submit that the reasoning doesn't logically follow or disagree with the tenet as something that even matters to "pretend at being an elf" games. If a person is one of those folks, then they surely wouldn't qualify it as mischief as they either disagree or it doesn't matter to them (irrelevant mischief is no mischief at all). And I would still stridently, yet earnestly, disagree.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6128677, member: 6696971"] And here's an answer - If someone poses such a question as "can the GM cheat?", is it only polite to answer with ambiguity and hedging for fear of the answer of "yes" (and the corresponding reasoning) being too incendiary or strident to digest dispassionately? Or, if someone poses that question in good faith (presumably looking for yes answers, and reasoning, just as they are for no answers), is it reasonable to divulge the philosophical disposition of my table as unequivocally "yes" and the reasoning of "it cheats players out of the meaningful impact of their decision-making on a strategic/tactical level and the corresponding narrative imposition that their decisions are supposed to drive?" In this case, mischief as "misrepresenting the player's capacity for (i) meaningful impact via strategic and tactical decisions and (ii) corresponding narrative imposition" by the vessel of illegitimate fortune resolution and circumvention of the weight of PC build choices on that equation. Mechanically, that is my take and I stand by the reasoning. Nonetheless, this is a leisure pursuit, so, naturally, different strokes for different folks is implicitly appended at the bottom of every post where an issue is presented that might yield discord within our hobby. You can disagree and submit that the reasoning doesn't logically follow or disagree with the tenet as something that even matters to "pretend at being an elf" games. If a person is one of those folks, then they surely wouldn't qualify it as mischief as they either disagree or it doesn't matter to them (irrelevant mischief is no mischief at all). And I would still stridently, yet earnestly, disagree. [/QUOTE]
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