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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2240977" data-attributes="member: 22622">Let's calm down a bit guys.&nbsp; I've aleady been apart of one thread that was ended this week ( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; RIP PUZZLE thread) This argument, at its base, is about wanting to be heard and understanding.&nbsp; No one likes when someone tells them something to do without an explaination.&nbsp; I am sure we all grew out of this at the age of seven.&nbsp; We as human beings need explanation.&nbsp; We also need consistency.&nbsp; Lets go out of the D and D realm and put this into real life context.&nbsp; What if you stopped at a stop sign and got pulled over for the police because you waited 1 seconds instead of 3 seconds.&nbsp; Even though the law clearly states 3 seconds, but the police tell you that its 3.&nbsp; He talks to you about it and you still disagree with that, he throws you in jail.Now take the same situation, this time the police office tellls you tis 3 seconds and explains that this is the law here because this is a deaf community and several people have died here before.&nbsp; He tells thep erson he pulled over that this law is a law and is consisstent with other laws in the book.&nbsp; Well that changes thigns and actually you'd probably feel a bit guilty for pulling off so soon. The thing that changed in the situation is the DM took the time to explain his decision (given he had a reason) and made sure to insure the player that this ruling would be consistent for the remainder of the campaignn.&nbsp; Whereas I will not go as far in langauge as the last post, I will say that we as DMs overall do need to be more openminded to the players.&nbsp; I once asked in a post how many dms plan their worlds with their players and to that I got a hefty 10 to 20 percent.&nbsp; Whereas i do not want to impose my way of dm'n on anyone, iget alot of more flack in my games that incorporate my players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 2240977, member: 22622"] Let's calm down a bit guys. I've aleady been apart of one thread that was ended this week ( :( RIP PUZZLE thread) This argument, at its base, is about wanting to be heard and understanding. No one likes when someone tells them something to do without an explaination. I am sure we all grew out of this at the age of seven. We as human beings need explanation. We also need consistency. Lets go out of the D and D realm and put this into real life context. What if you stopped at a stop sign and got pulled over for the police because you waited 1 seconds instead of 3 seconds. Even though the law clearly states 3 seconds, but the police tell you that its 3. He talks to you about it and you still disagree with that, he throws you in jail. Now take the same situation, this time the police office tellls you tis 3 seconds and explains that this is the law here because this is a deaf community and several people have died here before. He tells thep erson he pulled over that this law is a law and is consisstent with other laws in the book. Well that changes thigns and actually you'd probably feel a bit guilty for pulling off so soon. The thing that changed in the situation is the DM took the time to explain his decision (given he had a reason) and made sure to insure the player that this ruling would be consistent for the remainder of the campaignn. Whereas I will not go as far in langauge as the last post, I will say that we as DMs overall do need to be more openminded to the players. I once asked in a post how many dms plan their worlds with their players and to that I got a hefty 10 to 20 percent. Whereas i do not want to impose my way of dm'n on anyone, iget alot of more flack in my games that incorporate my players. [/QUOTE]

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