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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5879413" data-attributes="member: 54877">Also a vote in favor of "DM Fiat" not in any way being a prejorative. In fact, it is positively a good thing. The best kind of DM Fiat is when the DM knows the system well enough to say something like, "Hey, we can play this out by the procedure if you guys want, but if we do, it will likely take 30 minutes and result in X. If you want, we can simply narrate that X happens and move on. Or if playing it out sounds like fun, we can do that." That is classic informed DM Fiat. To the extent that DM Fiat gets a bad rap, it's because of DMs forgetting to exercise their common sense, DMs without the slightest clue how something would work in reality (or the underlying fiction) but convinced that know it well, or--often the very worst--DMs that have played a system so long that they have mistaken their twisted rationalization of what the system models into strong dogma about what the system does.  Fiat and mechanics are not opposed, but in sync. Bad mechanics typically lead to bad fiat. Good mechanics do the opposite. It's a lot like law in that respect. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>