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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5137298" data-attributes="member: 18701">When I first began DMing and wasn't very knowledgeable with rules, I was extremely lenient on the rules. This caused a lot of my friends to argue with me about rules because they didn't even know the rules. So I began to study them better, but I still did not really care about being a rules guru.Then I had to form a new group due to real life getting in the way for most of the players. The new players that joined would become irate whenever I was light with the rules. They argued with me about rules even more than my old players. So I studied the rules even more.As years went by, it seemed like more & more players were rules lawyers and would stop the game to look up rules even when I'd ask them to discuss the rules after the game instead. I was basically forced into learning the rules to the point where I was almost a walking PHB.This caused me to be strict on rules with the players since I got so used to players being strict on me about the rules. I finally have a group of players that are laid back enough and don't need me to be strict on the rules. So I'm being more lenient about the rules and letting them get away with things at times because they let me get away with things at times. I'm not sure what qualifies as being strict, but if I didn't already know most of the rules I wouldn't care much at all if we weren't following a rule correctly.</blockquote>