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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 6596134" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have a question those of you adamantly opposed to ever fudging where do you fall on the player type according to Robin's Rules of Good game mastering? As a player are you more of power gamer or tactitrcan as opposed to a method actor or story teller?The reason I am asking this is because I do think what kicks you get out as a player influence you as a DM. Power gamers, butt kickers and especially tacticians rely on knowing the rules and making their choices of play based on the rules. So if a DM fudges or uses rule O that can be seen as mitigating their choices  and thus interfering in what they enjoy in the game.But there are more ways to play then just this and the method actors and story tellers have as much right to enjoy the game as the other type of players and for them never fudging even if that means denying them what they most enjoy in a game is seen as bad DMing. So as a DM don't you think part of your job is to identify what your players like best and try and accommodate them to some extent. There has been a lot of talk about dishonesty here and one thing I consider very dishonest is a DM who is not upfront with players and does not comes out and says I think your style of role play is badfun and I have no intention of ever accommodating you as a player. Because that is what I am reading here with words like cheating and cheaters being thrown around to describe rule O. I don't think that there is a badfun way to play the game I do acknowledge that there are different play styles. One of the biggest issues when it comes to players and DMs having issues that ruins the fun for them is based on miscommunication. I consider it a huge miscommunication when a DM does not acknowledge that maybe because of their own prejudice on styles of play that they should not be the DM for certain players. Just talking to players is often enough to get an idea on what they want out of a game. If you can bring yourself to bend to allow a certain playstyle in your game then you need to be honest and say that. For myself I hate DMing for casual players I will play with them but I am upfront that as a DM they annoy me and are not a good fit for my table. I will also be upfront that if you are mainly a butt kicker looking for a game that is mainly butt kicking then you most likely won't have fun in my game. This is not a judgement that they play wrong just that they play differently.</blockquote>

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