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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 3963718" data-attributes="member: 3887">I think a high-trust environments discourage people from looking to the game mechanics to settle what are essentially interpersonal problems. HTE's (sometimes, I love acronyms) also make it easy to use ad-hoc rulings to solve the problem at hand. If they turn out to have unforeseen long-term consequences, so what? The players aren't lawyers looking to quote precedent, the ah-hoc ruling gets overruled, and a new solution gets implemented. BTW, it pains me to read about house/ad-hoc rulings that 'broke the game'. Why didn't those groups just undo the houserule/rule something else? A D&D campaign should be a self-correcting system. Try this on for size, shil. The trust problem endemic to traditional, GM-moderated RPG's is the anxiety over power that's built into the set-up. One players is cast in the role of scenario designer, rules-arbiter, and rule-implementer. This player is also frequently cast in the role of antagonist and, in order for the other players to feel like they're winning the game, they have to defeat him.It's a little like soccer (er, football) where the opposing goal tender is also the referee, and he's armed with a Kalashnikov instead of red cards. Well, a very little like that...  Not any more, no. What I want out of an RPG experience ("make me a violent storybook to cavort in!") requires a high-trust environment and a lot of fiat rulings. Right now I'm quite fortunate that I don't have to. As if you didn't know.Yes, yes we do. I mean... thanks. I'm flattered. Obviously we couldn't do it without you.</blockquote>

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