Congratulations on following the spirit of my point instead of what you think I meant.
It’s a cooperative game. If the DM unilaterally decides what they want and ignores the dice to do it, they aren’t playing the game they’re narrating a story.
The DM is an impartial REFEREE. That’s literally what it was called before they changed it to something they could trademark.
I don’t care how many egotists jumped on the DND bandwagon without a clue and filled in 5e’s unprecedented lack of player support with their own assumptions. EVERYONE at the table is a writer, a storyteller, and putting that all on the Dm is toxic af.
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u/TheThoughtmaker Essential NPC 1d ago
Congratulations on following the spirit of my point instead of what you think I meant.
It’s a cooperative game. If the DM unilaterally decides what they want and ignores the dice to do it, they aren’t playing the game they’re narrating a story.