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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shoak1" data-source="post: 7168841" data-attributes="member: 54380">In your case it definitely seems the DM should stick with doing the rulings.  I have played with players ranging from 14 to 52 and there are definitely some who cannot be fair and unbiased.  Certainly age seems a dominant factor, though not the only one.  Perhaps we could agree that the qualifications for arbiter should include rules knowledge coupled with fair handedness.1.  Aren't you playing the bad guys?  Why is it reasonable for you to be unbiased while playing them but not reasonable for players to be unbiased when playing their PCs?  Is it because you don't see the game as competitive while they do?  If so we differ in that regard.2.  Again, we should add this as a qualification of arbiter.  So that means we now have rules knowledge, ability to think long term, and fair handedness as qualifications.3.  This is rules knowledge and that is not the exclusive domain of the DM.Big DMers can work with the amorphous unstructured RAW because they don't mind being....Big DM.  DM lights want more structure in the rules themselves, as well as guidelines in the modules because they don't like being....Big DM.  So writing stuff for DM Light seems the logical way to go since the Big DM can just ignore that added structure if he likes.</blockquote>