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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8652531" data-attributes="member: 6795602">You've made me ponder.  Why aren't players ever accused of 'player fiat'.  Or is that what is technically happening when the DM or another player questions whether their decisions were due to roleplaying or expediency or some other reason?EDIT:  Thinking some more on this I have seen players react rather badly to other players doing 'dumb stuff' in combat and putting the other PC at great risk of death and it's an especially bad reaction when it does result in PC death.  I think the issue there is fiat decisions that lead to negative consequences for some player, whether performed by another player or by the GM.  Players don't tend to react to fiat decisions that don't negatively impact them but they do to ones that do.</blockquote>