Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
The thing is that jedipotter is actually not even remotely familiar with the game, and because he can't stand the players having a better understanding of it, he has to Calvinball it up just to stay "competitive." Because it takes effort to play fair, and maturity to talk things out, but it's really easy to say "no, your spell fails, because Orcus."
Bravo!

Jedipotter is trying to make a false equivalence between hiding story bits from them for drama's sake and hiding rules from them because if they knew how deep that rabbit hole goes, they'd never let him DM.