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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 402272" data-attributes="member: 172">What insult? You yourself stated that you are "just five guys"; by your own admission you are in it for something more lighthearted that I am. That's fine, your call.That said, if that qualifies as an insult, you fired the first shot with "hoaky."Uh, that's nice, but again I fail to see what it has to do with this conversation. You seem to think I am talking about some acting or character conversation thing here. Let me reiterate that I am not.For me, what the GM says it the "correct" history.Let me ask you something: do DICE bother you? IME, the scope of misinterpereted rules is much less than could be represented by a dice roll.The only difference between a dice roll and a random misinterperetation is that the dice roll is codified in the rules. By saying "all mistakes are final", I accept other randomness as valid. It's that simple.It seems to be that "your way" would be the time consuming one, rewinding whenever someone forgets a bonus, flipping through pages to ensure you got every bonus. I've played "your way*" and I find the time/enjoyment ratio too low.That much appears to be the case. <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=":)" />I'm not sure what OOC comments have to do with anything, but my life -- and available play time -- is too short to replay every little combat where someone forgot a +1 bonus.* - In fact people on many boards see me as a rules stickler. But its not that simple -- I beleive in learning as much as you can so you can run the game as consistently as possible without interruption, but when it comes down to a pristine call by the rules by 5 minutes of digging or making a quick rational call, I'll default to the latter. In fact, the DMG explicitly encourages this mode of play with the "DM's best friend" rule.</blockquote>

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