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>> That is the game.

Where does it say that? "The game" is whatever the people at the table agree they want to play.

This is one way to see "rule 0" or sometimes "the most important rule" in other games, that the players are not slaves to the rulebook and that the point of the game is to enjoy the time playing it, not to slavishly follow a set of rules and who cares if some players hate it.




Sure. The game is whatever the group decides it is. But the core mechanics of the game are make a roll and pass/fail causes something to happen.


That is what rule 0 is about. It allows the GM to overrule everything, including a clear, boolean die roll.

I really don't think there is any excuse to allow something to pass in the game that will make the game a miserable experience for any of the players, and that the rules say so is the weakest excuse I can think of, given that the rules are executed by humans, not machines, and most of the rules are violated or forgotten, or hacked, or simply left unused, anyway.




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