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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 6394380" data-attributes="member: 40359">This has generally been my experience. Arguments about rules and break downs of trust are people problems that need people solutions, not different rules. If everyone there is interested in having fun and letting everyone else have fun, too, then these things are usually pretty quick to get settled one way or another.For example, I'm teaching one of my son's friends how to DM. Told him the DM's primary job is to help make sure everyone at the table is having fun, yourself included. That trumps everything. For players, I usually state it that they are there to have fun and not get in the way of anyone else's fun - player or DM. Those are the only rules that are firm. Everything else serves those rules.Exactly.I really don't care about Rules as Intended. The designers' intents might be informative to consider as another opinion, but I give it even less weight than Rules as Written - silly situations and all.Personally, just to make it clear what the point of even playing the game is, I prefer RAMF - Rules as Most Fun. If something is not clear, what would be the most fun right now, but also considering we will hopefully be gaming together for years to come? Several times we have come across a situation of "I'm not sure that would work out well as a permanent interpretation, but right now that would be awesome." So I go ahead and admit that and run with it. Then afterwards, we take the time to come up with more long term interpretation that we can all agree to. Players seem to be ok with that. Yes, it can be entirely inconsistent, but I am open and clear on why it is inconsistent (right now, to keep the fun going, we will interpret it one way, but having that be the permanent interpretation might lead to less fun down the road if it's overpowered compared to other players). Being flexible and focusing on the fun for everyone really helps to build a culture within the group that is cool with that. We get to the point where the only time we open a book during play for a rule check is piddly stuff like "Was that a 30' effect or 5'/level and I forgot to update it?" quick things like that someone can easily do without interrupting anyone else. Everything else is ruled based on what keeps the fun going now and flagged to discuss later to decide what would be the most fun for all long term.So RAMF all that way! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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