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IT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE GAME, NOT THE LETTER OF THE RULES, WHICH IS IMPORTANT. NEVER HOLD TO THE LETTER WRITTEN, NOR ALLOW SOME BARRACKS
ROOM LAWYER TO FORCE QUOTATIONS FROM THE RULE BOOK UPON YOU, IF IT GOES AGAINST THE OBVIOUS INTENT OF THE GAME. AS YOU HEW THE LINE
WITH RESPECT TO CONFORMITY TO MAJOR SYSTEMS AND UNIFORMITY OF PLAY IN GENERAL, ALSO BE CERTAIN THE GAME IS MASTERED BY YOU AND NOT BY
YOUR PLAYERS. WITHIN THE BROAD PARAMETERS GIVEN IN THE ADVANCED DUNGEONS 8 DRAGONS VOLUMES, YOU ARE CREATOR AND FINAL ARBITER.
BY ORDERING THINGS AS THEY SHOULD BE, THE GAME AS A WHOLE FIRST, YOUR CAMPAIGN NEXT, AND YOUR PARTICIPANTS THEREAFTER, YOU WILL BE
PLAYING ADVANCED DUNGEONS 8 DRAGONS AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE. MAY YOU FIND AS MUCH PLEASURE IN SO DOING AS THE REST OF US DO!
Hogwash. If you follow the rules then your players shouldn't have a problem. I require my players to follow the rules so I hold myself no less accountable. Do I fudge a roll, sometimes. But if you are making a bunch of BS houserules, I wouldn't want to play with you either. Where the rules are vague, we can come to a mutual consensus as it crops up. AD&D had a lot more vague areas than 3.5 which is why I prefer 3.5 to AD&D.
Hogwash. If you follow the rules then your players shouldn't have a problem. I require my players to follow the rules so I hold myself no less accountable.
I don't think that the quotation in the OP is saying what you seem to think it is. IMO, the point is not "DM, ignore the rules when it suits you" but "Don't let rules lawyers run roughshod over you." Which is good advice.
Do I fudge a roll, sometimes. But if you are making a bunch of BS houserules, I wouldn't want to play with you either. Where the rules are vague, we can come to a mutual consensus as it crops up. AD&D had a lot more vague areas than 3.5 which is why I prefer 3.5 to AD&D.
And I prefer simple rules and a DM's judgement to complex rules strictly interpreted. De gustibus...
