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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8733055" data-attributes="member: 6855114">[USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] , I can assure you that divine interventions are rare and used sparingly. And most of the time it is something small that only marginally help. I reserve true divine interventions for the clerical power miracle. [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER] Then why is there a DM? The game belongs to both players and DM. The goal is not to force a story down the throats of the players or to put words in their mouth. It is to build and see a story emerge from play. If you as DM can role play alongside your players, what exactly are you doing. Rolling dice for their foes? Not every DM's actions are there to put players at ease or to start a war. We have a very democratic game where every player has a voice in the rules and events. I happen to be a player too. But I do not play a player character, I play NPCs. As long as I play within the rules and apply them fairly to both PCs and NPCs and I do not mess up with players' agencies for the fun of being mean, I see no problems to play the I do. It has worked out for almost 40 years now. No one ever thought that I was being abusive. Why would you and your players think so?</blockquote>