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Message: <blockquote data-quote="balterkn" data-source="post: 3314464" data-attributes="member: 46546">Sounds like you are the kind of rules lawyer we'd love to have in our game (as a fellow player, DM, or as a player for when I DM).This is my preferred method also - keeps the game moving, gives the player with more experience a chance to educate the DM in a more appropriate forum than the middle of an encounter.I've made calls in the middle of a game that players have disagreed with, typically because my rules intuition tells me something different (typically, I find that I've ruled in the same direction as the errata and FAQ, rather than the PHB as printed).  Now, I don't keep all these items open at the game table, nor am I able to cite "well, the that rule was changed in the FAQ on page X, in the following manner for game balance".  And sometimes, I hand-wave a rule when I detect that the other 3 players at the table roll their eyes at the rule-lawyer's point (so, in choosing between 1 person feeling wronged, and  3 people wanting to “get past this and on to something more fun”, my fault is that I will prefer to keep the three people engaged and deal with the wronged person in the post-session wrap-up)On review after/before the next game, I find I was typically right about 80-90% of the time for uncommon items (90-95% for common core), and when incorrect, I start the next session with a quick - "I was wrong and Billy was right, in how I handled this last time, sorry about that, here's how it works according to the rules for the future"I actually like it when my players want to discuss the rules outside the current "encounter in progress" – while I'd like to be following the rules, most of the people I play with don't even follow the rules exactly for their favorite board games, they play the board games following about 90% of the rules and wing the rest to have fun.</blockquote>

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