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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Traveon Wyvernspur" data-source="post: 5698062" data-attributes="member: 73201">I may have phrased it a bit weirdly, but what I meant was if you have  all the various options available from the original rulebooks, official  player option books, and other 3rd party splat would you still be going  RAW using these sources or still go with home-brewing rules not  contained within these resources.That's cool, a lot of DM's do it this way and that is an interpretation issue not a home-brew ruling thing unless you are changing something in the RAW which would change some mechanics in your game. I kind of covered this in my first quote of you, which is what I was clarifying. Splat/non-core are different from home-brewing in my opinion. The question at hand is more about if you change things that aren't in these types of books.This is how I do it when I home-brew as well, if players agree to play in my games and I have certain things I like to change I tell them ahead of time and if other things need to change during the course of the game I will discuss with them. I feel that everyone at the table should have input if something during the game changes and I will not implement if they think (as a majority of players) that it is unfair, silly, or absurd.I think you took me too literally there, what I meant by that option was that you make all decisions, without any player input ever, and if they don't like it that they can go find another table to sit at because the way you do things is the only way. Being the final arbiter of the rules is not about being god, it's about being well-informed and sticking to what you think is the right call as a judge or referee. That's how I've always felt it should be done that the DM is the rules-judge and players can attempt to sway the judge in their favor if they come up with a good argument on a rule that may be in a "grey area."</blockquote>

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