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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4042259" data-attributes="member: 32740">As a player it's fine if things happening off- or ON screen are not plausible by the rules.&nbsp; So long as the DM is able to avoid having it cause unintended misdirection and doesn't wallow in having all manner of &quot;impossible&quot; stuff happening I don't have a problem with it.&nbsp; The king dies by falling off his horse and breaking his neck?&nbsp; Nothing wrong with that - just don't have that information go hand in hand with, &quot;but the king was the most awesome horseman in the world - hmn...&quot;.&nbsp; The PC's find an old man and are in the midst of pumping him for information when he dies of an aneurism or heart failure before answering all the questions and healing won't bring him back.&nbsp; Not an issue for me - unless the DM then takes perverse delight in watching the players waste potions, spells, time, money, and effort to revive him and then get upset when they try to question his corpse instead.Players MUST, for the most part, play by the rules or the DM slaps them down.&nbsp; The DM has no such restriction - and that's a good thing.&nbsp; But not if the DM is using this advantage to mean-spiritedly (or thoughtlessly) exploit the players DISadvantage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 4042259, member: 32740"] As a player it's fine if things happening off- or ON screen are not plausible by the rules. So long as the DM is able to avoid having it cause unintended misdirection and doesn't [I]wallow[/I] in having all manner of "impossible" stuff happening I don't have a problem with it. The king dies by falling off his horse and breaking his neck? Nothing wrong with that - just don't have that information go hand in hand with, "but the king was the most awesome horseman in the world - hmn...". The PC's find an old man and are in the midst of pumping him for information when he dies of an aneurism or heart failure before answering all the questions and healing won't bring him back. Not an issue for me - unless the DM then takes perverse delight in watching the players waste potions, spells, time, money, and effort to revive him and then get upset when they try to question his corpse instead. Players MUST, for the most part, play by the rules or the DM slaps them down. The DM has no such restriction - and that's a good thing. But not if the DM is using this advantage to mean-spiritedly (or thoughtlessly) exploit the players DISadvantage. [/QUOTE]

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