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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8669138" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>There is a lot of excused middle here though. All I can say is I have had plenty of situations where the players bypassed a ton of prep because they made a choice like this, and I didn't have the guard be unbribeable. Can a GM be 100% objective and fair all the time? No of course not. GMs are human beings. Some days you make better rulings than others. The goal is to be as fair and open minded in your rulings as you can. To not allow those kinds of considerations to enter into your decision as much as you can. The fact that you might once in a while unconsciously let bias enter into a ruling, even if 90 percent of the time you are making pretty impartial rulings, I think doesn't undermine the enjoyment of this type of play. And on the player side it also requires a certain amount of trust in the GM. If you are examining every choice the GM makes under a critical microscope, because you are worried about some residual bias creeping in,&nbsp; you might not enjoy this type of play. Personally I don't get too hung up on these issues whether I am a player or a GM. Perfection isn't the goal. The goal is to enjoy gaming with our friends.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8669138, member: 85555"] There is a lot of excused middle here though. All I can say is I have had plenty of situations where the players bypassed a ton of prep because they made a choice like this, and I didn't have the guard be unbribeable. Can a GM be 100% objective and fair all the time? No of course not. GMs are human beings. Some days you make better rulings than others. The goal is to be as fair and open minded in your rulings as you can. To not allow those kinds of considerations to enter into your decision as much as you can. The fact that you might once in a while unconsciously let bias enter into a ruling, even if 90 percent of the time you are making pretty impartial rulings, I think doesn't undermine the enjoyment of this type of play. And on the player side it also requires a certain amount of trust in the GM. If you are examining every choice the GM makes under a critical microscope, because you are worried about some residual bias creeping in, you might not enjoy this type of play. Personally I don't get too hung up on these issues whether I am a player or a GM. Perfection isn't the goal. The goal is to enjoy gaming with our friends. [/QUOTE]

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