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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9706304" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Really? Players don't have to "respect" rolls of any kind; that's literally not what they're doing. GMs need to, if the player is to have any understanding that the values they roll matter for the results they get. (This is, among other things, why I detest fudging--secretly ignoring the die and covering this up so the player can't find out--so much.) Or, for another example, GMs can't just willy-nilly declare that today, initiative is determined by who can stand on one leg the longest...while being tickled by another participant. To do so is to break the rules of the game.Or, to come up with a different example: Things that do damage (not any other effect, JUST damage) have to produce damage numbers. An attack which does damage by deleting words from the player's character sheet would be breaking rules that bind the GM, not the player, since players can't invent new attacks, they simply have them or don't. Or a third: Knowledge checks. If the rules say that getting 20+ on a Knowledge check means you give the player certain information, and the player does in fact legitimately (not with any exploits or other stupid bovine feces, just genuine sincere research, roleplay, and a good die roll) get a result of 20+, would you not say the rules are binding on you to actually follow through there? Would it not be a pretty serious faux pas to look at that and say, "Nope, that's stupid, I'm going to lie instead."?D&D has rules that bind GMs. You just think they're so obvious you don't pay them any attention; you have no need to break them.Let us consider encounter design rules. How do the rules for how to build an encounter apply to players? Sure, the players will presumably face that encounter at some point. But where did the rules for building it apply to them? As far as I can tell, they never do. Where do the rules for setting DCs apply to players? Players shouldn't be setting DCs at all. Such rules can only apply to GMs!</blockquote>

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