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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8869792" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Because that is the only way the thing you discussed could actually be a problem worth discussing. What was said previously (removing nothing, full text):The simple answer to this is, as the authors intended, "have an adult conversation." The only situation where this is a problem is where it wasn't possible to have an adult conversation. That is quite literally the design intent. It is what has always been meant by "rulings not rules" and by "DM empowerment." You, as DM, are given the reins and told to fend for yourself. The designers have no interest in protecting or assisting you in resolving conflicts that can, at least in principle, be solved by having an adult conversation between DM and player(s.) That is what 5e is and does; I dislike this approach rather a lot, but it is what they chose to go with.Because the vast, vast majority of the time it's actually DMs demonizing players, and you don't notice because you're so used to doing that?Seriously. The amount of flagrant, scathing distrust for or even dislike of players from DMs on this forum is staggering. And the open, explicit demands for "absolute power" (no, I am NOT joking, that exact phrase has been explicitly and repeatedly used by at least two distinct users on this very forum.) And for unquestioning and indeed unquestionable trust from players, with zero need to lift a finger in the other direction, solely because "DMs work so hard," thus players who don't meekly submit are (again, in some cases explicitly) trying to "destroy" the DM's literal actual works of art, again referencing something explicitly said by an actual user of this forum.And, again, DMs are the ones claiming power. People who claim power are, and should be, held to a higher standard. Them's the breaks. If you don't like that, write a novel. Then there's no one under your authority but yourself.</blockquote>

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