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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8987833" data-attributes="member: 93670">There is also the shifting views of houserules over the last twenty or thirty years though.&nbsp; Some probably due to computer games &amp; an acceleration from wotc's own AL rules on it/&quot;well you can do whatever you want with your own homebrew game, but officially...&quot; type statements from wotcstaff.&nbsp; The GM has shifted from someone to work with over towards the meat computer that damed well better run the game strict Rules As Written except for rule zero.&nbsp; The tolerance for the GM making up stuff or changing rules has fallen significantly while they were relegated to &quot;just do your job [run the game. Make sure everyone else has fun. Make sure it's the fun any given player wants... Just do [your/their] job&quot; type pressures. The adversarial GM is talked about all the time &amp; simply denying a player rule zero or actually enforcing the rules when a player wants to bend them is now a good way to get accused of it for even the slightest whiff of conflict/adversarial.&nbsp; Adversarial players who minimize the GM's ability to insert houserules &amp; such just get a pass though unless it's an extreme &amp; possibly jaw dropping display.&nbsp; Fifth edition didn't prime the players to accept all the homebrew it expects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8987833, member: 93670"] There is also the shifting views of houserules over the last twenty or thirty years though. Some probably due to computer games & an acceleration from wotc's own AL rules on it/"well you can do whatever you want with your own [I]homebrew[/I] game, but officially..." type statements from wotcstaff. The GM has shifted from someone to work with over towards the meat computer that damed well better run the game strict Rules As Written except for rule zero. The tolerance for the GM making up stuff or changing rules has fallen significantly while they were relegated to "just do your job [run the game. Make sure everyone else has fun. Make sure it's the fun any given player wants... [B]Just do [your/their] [I]job[/I][/B]" type pressures. The adversarial GM is talked about all the time & simply denying a player rule zero or actually enforcing the rules when a player wants to bend them is now a good way to get accused of it for even the slightest whiff of conflict/adversarial. Adversarial players who minimize the GM's ability to insert houserules & such just get a pass though unless it's an extreme & possibly jaw dropping display. Fifth edition didn't prime the players to accept all the homebrew it expects. [/QUOTE]

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