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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5789947" data-attributes="member: 9037">I don't believe a DM should change the rules willy nilly. The rules don't cover everything and there are times someone has to make a decision and that falls to the DM. Sure they should listen to what the players have to say but in the end the DM has final say. I have played with DMs who are slaves to the rules and I find them to be so rigid that the dun aspect of the game suffers. You can never do anything creative because it is not codified by the rule set.The other issues are players who don't want the responsibility of running a game but feel they should be able to dictate to the DM on how things should be. I played with a guy like this who would get upset if the DM changed how monsters worked. The DM did this because he got tired of all the meta game knowledge coming into the game. He went on and on that the DM was cheating. We kept pointing out rule zero, finally after the player in question went to a site and was told yes rule zero is a rule and yes the DM can change things with monsters did he finally shut up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 5789947, member: 9037"] I don't believe a DM should change the rules willy nilly. The rules don't cover everything and there are times someone has to make a decision and that falls to the DM. Sure they should listen to what the players have to say but in the end the DM has final say. I have played with DMs who are slaves to the rules and I find them to be so rigid that the dun aspect of the game suffers. You can never do anything creative because it is not codified by the rule set. The other issues are players who don't want the responsibility of running a game but feel they should be able to dictate to the DM on how things should be. I played with a guy like this who would get upset if the DM changed how monsters worked. The DM did this because he got tired of all the meta game knowledge coming into the game. He went on and on that the DM was cheating. We kept pointing out rule zero, finally after the player in question went to a site and was told yes rule zero is a rule and yes the DM can change things with monsters did he finally shut up. [/QUOTE]

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