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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7656265" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I have GMed so much AD&amp;D it isn't even funny.&nbsp; And I've GMed it with more players than I've run any other edition (well, well, well over the century mark).&nbsp; So I have my autobiographical info just like you.&nbsp; I'm more generally talking about the impact (on play and on the mentality of actors under the auspices of such a paradigm) on games and the culture surrounding games.&nbsp; And you might want to take a closer look at the post that was a direct response to me and then the follow-up below (bolded mine):If you read that as&nbsp; &quot;I&quot;m not so much worried about RAW, but I do care that the DM is fair and consistent&quot;, then our respective conceptions of plain english are entirely disconnected from another.&nbsp; We have:1 - Player:GM disagreement on rules and constant contradiction of player inference of how rules intersect by GM (and thus what rulings should come from those intersections).2 - But they DON'T CARE.3 - Because they trust the DM to make a fun game.Full stop.&nbsp; Nothing in that is about consistent, fair rulings (from which they can make inferences and future, intuitive action declarations of which they are comfortable with).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 7656265, member: 6696971"] I have GMed so much AD&D it isn't even funny. And I've GMed it with more players than I've run any other edition (well, well, well over the century mark). So I have my autobiographical info just like you. I'm more generally talking about the impact (on play and on the mentality of actors under the auspices of such a paradigm) on games and the culture surrounding games. And you might want to take a closer look at the post that was a direct response to me and then the follow-up below (bolded mine): If you read that as "I"m not so much worried about RAW, but I do care that the DM is fair and consistent", then our respective conceptions of plain english are entirely disconnected from another. We have: 1 - Player:GM disagreement on rules and constant contradiction of player inference of how rules intersect by GM (and thus what rulings should come from those intersections). 2 - But they DON'T CARE. 3 - Because they trust the DM to make a fun game. Full stop. Nothing in that is about consistent, fair rulings (from which they can make inferences and future, intuitive action declarations of which they are comfortable with). [/QUOTE]

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