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<blockquote data-quote="Wisdom Penalty" data-source="post: 4556469" data-attributes="member: 13287">Don't blame The People.&nbsp; And don't blame The Man.This need for some sort of permission stems from the fact that 3E had morphed the collective soul of gaming into a &quot;there must be a rule somewhere for that and i must follow it&quot; mantra.&nbsp; Ostensibly, the Power was taken away from the DM and given to the players &amp; DM via shared, common, standard rules. Gone were the days 1E DM fiat.And yet, what happened was that the Power was taken away from DMs and given to...the rulebooks.&nbsp; 3E has a rule for flippin' everything. And the mindset became - overnight - that a DM who didn't know or follow those rules was somehow cheating his players or the game.4E has its warts, but this is one thing is has done fabulously (yes, I just use 'fabulously' in a sentence - don't hold it against me) well on: It has reintroduced DM fiat in broad strokes akin to the heady days of 1E.WP</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wisdom Penalty, post: 4556469, member: 13287"] Don't blame The People. And don't blame The Man. This need for some sort of permission stems from the fact that 3E had morphed the collective soul of gaming into a "there must be a rule somewhere for that and i must follow it" mantra. Ostensibly, the Power was taken away from the DM and given to the players & DM via shared, common, standard rules. Gone were the days 1E DM fiat. And yet, what happened was that the Power was taken away from DMs and given to...the rulebooks. 3E has a rule for flippin' [i]everything[/i]. And the mindset became - overnight - that a DM who didn't know or follow those rules was somehow cheating his players or the game. 4E has its warts, but this is one thing is has done fabulously (yes, I just use 'fabulously' in a sentence - don't hold it against me) well on: It has reintroduced DM fiat in broad strokes akin to the heady days of 1E. WP [/QUOTE]

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