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The dm can cheat to win yes. That is also the lesson. Which means trying to beat the game is a hopeless goal. And if you think this is the game, you're gravely mistaken.
The comparison to flogging is simply dumb. It's completely irrelevant.
Now you can be a dumb player and refuse to learn anything from this encounter. It can spark a discussion then.
That's better communicated through... communication.
I don't know about you, but if I were playing a game to win and my "opponent" reveals that they can just cheat and instakill me whenever they feel like, I'm more likely to just stop playing the game than to try to play it for fun. Even if I did try to play it for fun, it would be hard to really enjoy it when I know that any encounter can just be a big middle finger.
If you don't explicitly tell people what they're doing wrong and how to fix it, it's unlikely that they'll figure it out on their own.
???
when is the DM an opponent?
Never, hence the air quotes. It's an analogy. I've been over this already with someone else.
yet you don't use airquotes elsewhere. you really think the DM is a rival to the players, it shows in the shit you're writing out.
imho, you've been playing the game wrong for a long time. you need to stop thinking of the DM as some counter to your players and instead think of them as an orchestra conductor.
I shouldn't have to explain this shit to you either. you're either being willfully ignorant or motivated to start some shit. not my monkeys,not my circus.
@mojofrododojo Maybe it's a client issue ? Because I see the quotes
https://lemmy.world/post/30340298/17319855
ctrl-f opponent, his reply to /bouh for example.
but thanks for chiming in
@mojofrododojo Yes, this is exactly the response I screenshoted. It has quotes, unicode of said quotes are U+201C before and U+201D after.
ah huh