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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9015006" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I would say you’re misinterpreting it just as much as I am. Or rather, each of our interpretations is influenced by our preferences.Rule zero is jargon for some options relating to GM authority. It’s not officially defined in 5e, or most editions. The one where it is, it doesn’t say what you claim. It doesn’t come from the designers of the rules.The one instance I know of where Rule Zero is actually defined doesn’t define it that way.I can google plenty of things that are biased or incorrect. This is part of the point. If we have to google stuff beyond the text to understand what they’re saying, then the text has failed.This may be an answer to the question “why do games have rules?”So the process of play is clear!In what game is it defined? From what book would a player read rule zero and then understand it?I don’t think those passages grant unilateral authority in all ways.I realize you do. But I disagree. And I think that’s precisely why they wrote the rules that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 9015006, member: 6785785"] I would say you’re misinterpreting it just as much as I am. Or rather, each of our interpretations is influenced by our preferences. Rule zero is jargon for some options relating to GM authority. It’s not officially defined in 5e, or most editions. The one where it is, it doesn’t say what you claim. It doesn’t come from the designers of the rules. The one instance I know of where Rule Zero is actually defined doesn’t define it that way. I can google plenty of things that are biased or incorrect. This is part of the point. If we have to google stuff beyond the text to understand what they’re saying, then the text has failed. This may be an answer to the question “why do games have rules?” So the process of play is clear! In what game is it defined? From what book would a player read rule zero and then understand it? I don’t think those passages grant unilateral authority in all ways. I realize you do. But I disagree. And I think that’s precisely why they wrote the rules that way. [/QUOTE]

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