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<blockquote data-quote="dreaded_beast" data-source="post: 825874" data-attributes="member: 11185">apologies, rant on:a pet peeve of mine is when DMs act as if their interpretation for their campaign is the &quot;correct&quot; way the rules should be interpreted in general. in my opinion, if a DM interprets a rule a certain that somewhat differs from what is presented in the books or makes a ruling on an &quot;ambiguous&quot; rule, then it is &quot;house ruled&quot;. i find it annoying when DMs create &quot;house rules&quot; (base on my definition), but act as if their &quot;house rules&quot; are actually how the designers intended the rules to be interpreted. they act as if their interpretation is correct and any other way to interpret is wrong, or at least less correct than their own interpretation, but it all boils down to the DM acting as if their interpretation is the only valid one.*of course, DM decisions for THEIR campaign are inherently correct since it is their campaign after all, regardless of how &quot;wrong&quot; or &quot;correct&quot; these decisions actually are. it's just irritating when these DM act as if their decisions for THEIR campaign are &quot;correct&quot; ones that can be and should be applied to other campaigns as well. especially when they make remarks like, &quot;this is how the creators of the game meant the rule to be handled...&quot;. how the heck do they know what the creators of the game meant? they can only interpret based on their own experiences that this is what they could possibly mean. by making statements like that, it's as if the DM is saying that their interpretations are not &quot;house rules&quot; but something akin to &quot;official rulings&quot; (which is only &quot;official&quot; to THEIR campaign). of course, this wouldn't be such a big deal if said DMs were not so hesistant to think that they could be wrong in their interpretations.i believe that this is a form of snobbery seen at the gametable, where DMs being DMs, feel as if they know the rules better than the players, and any interpretation done by the players is not at the same level as the DMs.apologies, rant off</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dreaded_beast, post: 825874, member: 11185"] apologies, rant on: a pet peeve of mine is when DMs act as if their interpretation for their campaign is the "correct" way the rules should be interpreted in general. in my opinion, if a DM interprets a rule a certain that somewhat differs from what is presented in the books or makes a ruling on an "ambiguous" rule, then it is "house ruled". i find it annoying when DMs create "house rules" (base on my definition), but act as if their "house rules" are actually how the designers intended the rules to be interpreted. they act as if their interpretation is correct and any other way to interpret is wrong, or at least less correct than their own interpretation, but it all boils down to the DM acting as if their interpretation is the only valid one. *of course, DM decisions for THEIR campaign are inherently correct since it is their campaign after all, regardless of how "wrong" or "correct" these decisions actually are. it's just irritating when these DM act as if their decisions for THEIR campaign are "correct" ones that can be and should be applied to other campaigns as well. especially when they make remarks like, "this is how the creators of the game meant the rule to be handled...". how the heck do they know what the creators of the game meant? they can only interpret based on their own experiences that this is what they could possibly mean. by making statements like that, it's as if the DM is saying that their interpretations are not "house rules" but something akin to "official rulings" (which is only "official" to THEIR campaign). of course, this wouldn't be such a big deal if said DMs were not so hesistant to think that they could be wrong in their interpretations. i believe that this is a form of snobbery seen at the gametable, where DMs being DMs, feel as if they know the rules better than the players, and any interpretation done by the players is not at the same level as the DMs. apologies, rant off [/QUOTE]

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