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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bae'zel" data-source="post: 9747807" data-attributes="member: 7048197">I feel like this debate is veering into the general “GM best practices around trust, fairness and properly reading the room”.After 25 years of DMing, I personally don’t like using meta currencies to control the ebb and flow of DM “interference”. However, I feel that they are likely a fantastic tool for training newer DMs (like training wheels) to help them constrain their “interference”, or at least use better narrative timing.I loved the Cypher System’s take on this, as well as Apocalypse World’s Moves. I think that this stuff can really help DMs learn the ropes.As someone said earlier, some a-hole people will make awful calls as a DM due to personality or inexperience, regardless of the rules. But these conversations are helpful, I think.Getting back the topic at hand, yea, I think that DMs who routinely target certain classes with extra intervention, but ignore others, need to re-evaluate things a bit. Be fair and make sure everyone is okay with it. Maybe the Fighter class, usually exempt from this stuff, SHOULD have stronger ties to a Fighter’s Guild or mercenary band? Know what I mean? Fair’s fair, some players may WANT the extra attention, right? I admit that I like the Warlock the most BECAUSE of the extra narrative opportunities it presents over the other classes. If the others had such narrative possibilities, I’d shop around a bit more.</blockquote>

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