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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5360983" data-attributes="member: 32740">Yes, it is odd.  I congratulate you on successfully running a game of which your players approve without needing to be more deeply versed in the details, but it is definitely a rare accomplishment and never something that should be recommended that anyone try.If he's enjoyed your game up to this point he OUGHT to let it slide without too much comment.  HOWEVER... He probably has the notion as a result of your admission that you have almost certainly "cheated" him at some point out of sheer ignorance of rules.Put it this way: When you agreed to run the game as DM the players had reasonable expectations that since they would be PLAYING the game under the restriction of certain rules as set forth in the PH and DMG that you would be RUNNING the game according to those very rules - or else you'd have informed them specifically what rules you were changing, adding, or omitting - and why.  Players have a right to know that they're NOT actually playing by rules which they THOUGHT they were playing by, and instead are just having their DM make it all up as he goes.  There is nothing wrong with running the game that way - but players have every right to feel betrayed if you admit that you routinely overlooked details of the game system that THEY thought they'd been operating by. Better that you should KNOW the rules and CHOOSE not to use them for defensible reasons, than to not use them because you simply haven't bothered to know them. Again, if your players have been enjoying your game they shouldn't care too much - but you do owe them an apology and an explanation of how you will/will not be running your game in the future.</blockquote>

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