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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5025907" data-attributes="member: 32740">Every DM I've ever spoken with about morale rules from pre-3E editions will almost immediately admit (intentionally or not) that they are not constrained by the morale rules as to when to make the check or even IF they will make the check.&nbsp; This means that morale rules - at least anecdotally speaking - have exactly squat to do with impartiality.&nbsp; If you want to claim that YOU use a set of morale rules without fail and precisely as written then you can claim that for YOU they are impartial, unbiased, and your own indecision is rendered IRRELEVANT since the morale rules determine FOR you what will happen.&nbsp; However, if you ever forget to check morale precisely when the morale rules dictate, if you alter the results to fit your DM's judgement of what's sensible or to mitigate the positive/negative overall effect it might have on a given encounter, etc. ... why then those morale rules are just one more plainly biased tool that you as a DM use to engineer the outcomes that YOU want to see.&nbsp; To be impartially applied you have to use them EXACTLY as written and use them EVERY time.&nbsp; IME, virtually noone can ever honestly claim that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5025907, member: 32740"] Every DM I've ever spoken with about morale rules from pre-3E editions will almost immediately admit (intentionally or not) that they are not constrained by the morale rules as to when to make the check or even IF they will make the check. This means that morale rules - at least anecdotally speaking - have exactly squat to do with impartiality. If you want to claim that YOU use a set of morale rules without fail and precisely as written then you can claim that for YOU they are impartial, unbiased, and your own indecision is rendered IRRELEVANT since the morale rules determine FOR you what will happen. However, if you ever forget to check morale precisely when the morale rules dictate, if you alter the results to fit your DM's judgement of what's sensible or to mitigate the positive/negative overall effect it might have on a given encounter, etc. ... why then those morale rules are just one more plainly biased tool that you as a DM use to engineer the outcomes that YOU want to see. To be [I]impartially[/I] applied you have to use them EXACTLY as written and use them EVERY time. IME, virtually noone can ever honestly claim that. [/QUOTE]

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