Hungry Like The Wolf
First Post
Reflect on this: compromise and acquiescence are 2 different things. I should know- I'm an attorney/mediator, and I help people craft compromises that get drafted into contracts for a living.
It is perfectly possible to craft an agreement between parties without them agreeing to every demand of each side...especially if/when the demands are mutually incompatible.
If the OP had instead been asked to include psionics in a LotR game, his refusal to do so would have been no less justified, and labeling his rejection "authoritarian" or "hedonistic" would be no more juvenile.
I don't respect appeals to authority, so I could care less what you say you are. You are also missing the point. Improv is an art that lives and dies by cooperation, its golden rule is to say "yes" not "no" or "say yes sometimes but no other times". Doesn't that tell you something about the nature of cooperation and the effects of negative qualifiers on cooperation? It's also an art form which develops from two people not two people with a mediator going through a structured mediation process.
Also, the OP did not compromise or even offer a hint that the issue was up for discussion. That's authoritarian and in my opinion being an authoritarian DM in this respect is being a jerk.
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