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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roland Delacroix" data-source="post: 356045" data-attributes="member: 1753">Yes, I trust my players.  I know them so I trust them to take advantage of any rules holes I open up.  Luckily I am an incredible min/maxer myself so I see every attempt miles before it happens.  I'm still not used to the regular stuff though.I trust one player in particular to do a decent job of exploiting rules, his wife as well though i'm still not sure if she walks beside him or merely follows his lead (BTW Hi there!  See ya next sunday?)  Two more players balance RP with min/maxing pretty well.  Another two would be happy if their charaters were as useless as a sock puppet as long as their characters interact good and follow their concepts.I don't care what they do as long as they have fun.  I'm not one of these DM's who think the players 'owe' him something or need to act in a certain way.  I'M here to make THEM have fun whatever that takes, not dictate my own play universe.  I arbitrate the rules, they run the game.  Yeah I 'cheat' Doc Moriarity, if it makes you feel better to condescend to me as well.  My players want a challenge and unlike the great and all knowing God, Jehova, Oz, Vecna, or whomever, I don't know everything and so can't plan everything perfectly in advance.If my min/maxing players ever make the RPers feel useless, or the RPers drag the game on for the min/maxers we will talk and come to some compromise.  So far it has worked out pretty well.  I think they are enjoying themselves.</blockquote>

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