Anon03/14/26, 15:35No.97707054
This is why TSR editions call the DM the Referee.The DM should be an impartial judge, dramatizing commentator, and narrator in a match of The Game vs The Players ((not so) secretly rooting for the players because they are the valiant home team champions, but never enough to color his rulings for he is an immaculate judge of utmost integrity). He moves The Game's pieces for it, because it has no hands, and devises the traits, moves, and strategies of The Game, the World and its Creatures, true to his concept of them in his own head because they are unable to think its own thoughts.But if That Orc would run up and gore the wizard with his spear, then the DM HAS to move The Orc's piece up to the wizard and stab at him because that's what The Game's move would be, and if the dice say the orc hits, then The Game has successfully wounded if not perhaps outright killed the Player's beloved wizard character Chuffy Von Salamancer.