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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9863162" data-attributes="member: 93670">Not looking to weigh in with agreement or disagreement on the snipped bit, but this deserves a <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🔫" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f52b.png" title="Pistol    :gun:" data-shortname=":gun:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🐈‍⬛" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f408-2b1b.png" title="Black cat    :black_cat:" data-shortname=":black_cat:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🔫" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f52b.png" title="Pistol    :gun:" data-shortname=":gun:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🗞️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f5de.png" title="Rolled-up newspaper    :newspaper2:" data-shortname=":newspaper2:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🐶" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f436.png" title="Dog face    :dog:" data-shortname=":dog:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🗞️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f5de.png" title="Rolled-up newspaper    :newspaper2:" data-shortname=":newspaper2:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> type correction because it ignores the consequences of design that requires the GM to use it just to fix a conflict with "<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♀️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2640.png" title="Woman shrugging    :woman_shrugging:" data-shortname=":woman_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />give players what they want<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♀️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2640.png" title="Woman shrugging    :woman_shrugging:" data-shortname=":woman_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />"design intent. When the gm starts using it to subvert design intent and outright reverse irrelivant by design elements so they become relevant it starts creating an adversarial table dynamic where players look for strict Rules As Written and see it with a Rules As A Guarantee.  Once that shift happens the gm winds up making things worse by becoming the embodiment of "<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsACheatingBastard" target="_blank">the [DM] is a cheating bastard</a>" for dismissing those guarantees the rules gave their PCs.  That adversarial descent doesn't happen the other way around when the GM is dismissing a restrictive rule with a potentially one off or frequent exception.</blockquote>

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