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<blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 4041565" data-attributes="member: 10095">At times, yes.But, to be clear, I wasn't aiming that &quot;lack of appreciation for drama&quot; comment at you. I'm directing it at most of the people I've played with. I tend to rely on dramatic genre tropes pretty often in my game, and this need for rules to adjudicate everything outside of what my heroes (PCs) are doing strikes me as pointless. I don't need rules to support my claim that the Old King died from dysentery, because that's story. The rules aren't necessary because I don't need to give someone a play-by-play of exactly what happened, because it's relatively unimportant to what is likely to affect the players.I've had a couple players pull the &quot;The rules don't support that backstory&quot; argument on me, and it usually gets them kicked from our group, because our first and foremost rule (above all) is that the DM is the ultimate authority on what is possible and what the rules mean (it also helps that as main DM for my group, I'm also the rules guru).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Little Raven, post: 4041565, member: 10095"] At times, yes. But, to be clear, I wasn't aiming that "lack of appreciation for drama" comment at you. I'm directing it at most of the people I've played with. I tend to rely on dramatic genre tropes pretty often in my game, and this need for rules to adjudicate everything outside of what my heroes (PCs) are doing strikes me as pointless. I don't need rules to support my claim that the Old King died from dysentery, because that's story. The rules aren't necessary because I don't need to give someone a play-by-play of exactly what happened, because it's relatively unimportant to what is likely to affect the players. I've had a couple players pull the "The rules don't support that backstory" argument on me, and it usually gets them kicked from our group, because our first and foremost rule (above all) is that the DM is the ultimate authority on what is possible and what the rules mean (it also helps that as main DM for my group, I'm also the rules guru). [/QUOTE]

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