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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8727405" data-attributes="member: 4937">Ok.  Yep.  It is definitely DM fiat.  I don't think it is going to cause me to modify my statement any.I still 100% back my statement.  Declaring rulings isn't nearly as powerful of use of a fiat as altering the fiction, so it's still true that DM fiat in D&D is mostly used in preparation.  Moreover your gotcha here is completely taking my comment out of context, as I was making that comment directly in response to Umbran's statement that most people didn't think about preparation as being fiat so the sort of fiat being discussed at the time was very much control over the fiction.  And to me, control over the fiction is the ultimate fiat power.  And I think this is made very evident by how many people will feel like the GM "fudging" is a form of cheating and wrong or at the very least something to be avoided, while being perfectly content to let the GM smith out rulings as needed.  And I don't think the answer to that is merely "because that is what they are used to".  One is much more assertion of authority over the narrative than the other.</blockquote>