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<blockquote data-quote="pascale" data-source="post: 4895671" data-attributes="member: 84899"><p>No. the DM is fallable. Just becuase your the DM does mean that you are no longer capable of making a mistake or gettng a rules call wrong. Your human and all humans make mistakes. Rule zero, and having the final say is not the smae as always right. It means that whether you are right or wrong what you decide for the ruling is the way it is played. That is different from being always right.</p><p> </p><p>On that not Rule zero- and the DM is the final arbitor of the rules is not an excuse for not knowing the rules. If you're wrong, be big enough to admit it. If you think don't know the rule, fine either make an on the fly ruling and look it up later, or go with the book ruling if it canbe found quickly enough.</p><p> </p><p>The important thing to remeber is that this game is group activity and everyones fun must be aco<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ed for. taht includes the players who want to know that they can count of the rules being enforced consistantly and fairly. Fun for the DM who just wants to run a fun game, and fun for the players wish everyone would just shut up so they can get on with the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pascale, post: 4895671, member: 84899"] No. the DM is fallable. Just becuase your the DM does mean that you are no longer capable of making a mistake or gettng a rules call wrong. Your human and all humans make mistakes. Rule zero, and having the final say is not the smae as always right. It means that whether you are right or wrong what you decide for the ruling is the way it is played. That is different from being always right. On that not Rule zero- and the DM is the final arbitor of the rules is not an excuse for not knowing the rules. If you're wrong, be big enough to admit it. If you think don't know the rule, fine either make an on the fly ruling and look it up later, or go with the book ruling if it canbe found quickly enough. The important thing to remeber is that this game is group activity and everyones fun must be aco:):):):)ed for. taht includes the players who want to know that they can count of the rules being enforced consistantly and fairly. Fun for the DM who just wants to run a fun game, and fun for the players wish everyone would just shut up so they can get on with the game. [/QUOTE]
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