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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6195181" data-attributes="member: 3400">Of course the GM is the final arbitrator of events within the game. That's the very mechanism by which a player's actions for his PCs have any outcome whatsoever. I think that for any statement that the GM is not the final arbitrator of events within the game to be true, even with what you're calling Gygaxian play, you have to be relying on a definition of arbitrate that is so nuanced that it is functionally useless.How does skilled play lead to outcomes? The GM evaluates the PC's actions against the situation and adjudicates the result. Skilled play can be expected to yield results favorable to the players more often than unskilled play assuming the GM is sufficiently impartial and fair, but they do so because of GM arbitration in that fashion. To assert that the GM is not the final arbiter strikes me as either a fundamental misunderstanding or an attempt to bamboozle the reader about what is going on in favor of some polemical position.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 6195181, member: 3400"] Of course the GM is the final arbitrator of events within the game. That's the very mechanism by which a player's actions for his PCs have any outcome whatsoever. I think that for any statement that the GM is not the final arbitrator of events within the game to be true, even with what you're calling Gygaxian play, you have to be relying on a definition of arbitrate that is so nuanced that it is functionally useless. How does skilled play lead to outcomes? The GM evaluates the PC's actions against the situation and adjudicates the result. Skilled play can be expected to yield results favorable to the players more often than unskilled play assuming the GM is sufficiently impartial and fair, but they do so because of GM arbitration in that fashion. To assert that the GM is not the final arbiter strikes me as either a fundamental misunderstanding or an attempt to bamboozle the reader about what is going on in favor of some polemical position. [/QUOTE]

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