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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6026683" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Ah, the mythic "Good DM" strikes again. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Clearly all of my 4e DMs were ignorant and stupid and playing the game wrong and any "Good DM" would be able to thwart those moments of fun-ruining disconnect that only a "Not Good DM" brings to this excellent, excellent, impeccable, and blameless framework. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, I don't buy it. </p><p></p><p>As I explained above, I don't think it's necessarily bad DMing to tell your player that, essentially, no they can't burn down Homlett with a wave of their hands. It's also well within <em>the actual rules of the game</em>. What, my DM needed to wing rules for the spread of a fire through densely populated urban areas filled with wooden buildings on the fly the moment I tried to get creative with my bandit-blasting? Nah, I can't BLAME her for shutting down that, with full rules support for it. The rules gave her an out, much like Chris Perkins's out (nothing says she SHOULD let my fire burn anything other than creatures), and she took it. The game didn't really support her doing otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6026683, member: 2067"] Ah, the mythic "Good DM" strikes again. ;) Clearly all of my 4e DMs were ignorant and stupid and playing the game wrong and any "Good DM" would be able to thwart those moments of fun-ruining disconnect that only a "Not Good DM" brings to this excellent, excellent, impeccable, and blameless framework. Yeah, I don't buy it. As I explained above, I don't think it's necessarily bad DMing to tell your player that, essentially, no they can't burn down Homlett with a wave of their hands. It's also well within [I]the actual rules of the game[/I]. What, my DM needed to wing rules for the spread of a fire through densely populated urban areas filled with wooden buildings on the fly the moment I tried to get creative with my bandit-blasting? Nah, I can't BLAME her for shutting down that, with full rules support for it. The rules gave her an out, much like Chris Perkins's out (nothing says she SHOULD let my fire burn anything other than creatures), and she took it. The game didn't really support her doing otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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