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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8254424" data-attributes="member: 3457">I think another part of it is the idea of “balance” and rules as “fair”. Many of these newer DMs haven’t read the DMG at all, which is understandable considering the way sooo many people keep saying “the DMG isn’t necessary” so the idea of the DM being final arbiter in a game is lost on these people. I have two people in my group that have been playing D&D and even DMing, starting with 5e, for a couple years. I am new to running 5e regularly but I have read over the books and I asked if they knew how to award XP because I needed to look it up and couldn’t remember the formula. They both pulled out a PHB. Then D&D Beyond. Searched PHB on D&D Beyond. They’d only run the prewritten campaigns.So it’s this weird world where the PHB and MM are RAW and the DMG ignored and its kind of our own fault that these players who don’t understand the DM role at the table haven’t read the book because we keep saying in reviews the DMG isn’t essential. I disagree, as a DM for 1e, 2e, 3e and now 5e... the DMG is absolutely essential and home brew DMs are shot in the tukus because we are getting a lot of new influx with entitlement and do not understand the idea of cooperative storytelling in an rpg. Those coming from Pathfinder also have a tendency to rules lawyer while a design conceit of 5e is rulings, not rules.have a friend who started with Pathfinder, doesn’t play with us but his primary problem, and why he hates Critical Role, is because Matt Mercer broke the rules for the flying carpet during their Underdark adventure. Nevermind his players had fun. Mercer was a bad DM because he changed the rules.</blockquote>

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