The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Warpiglet-7]

10 foot pole? More like 4 feet.
-Morgan Ironwolf

Morgan, it’s not the size of the pole that matters but how you poke the dungeon floor with it!

 

[overgeeked]

So much distrust of DMs.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

So much distrust of DMs.

Normally there's a reason behind that.

 

[prabe]

So much distrust of players, with probably about as much reason.

 

[overgeeked]

So much player hate...

Normally there's a reason behind that.

Right back at ya.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Right back at ya.

Distrusting DMs and hating players are very, very different things.

 

[overgeeked]

So much distrust of players, with probably about as much reason.

I don’t buy that.

 

[Mad_Jack]

If you're not carrying a ten-foot pole, six torches, and a flask of oil, are you even playing Dungeons & Dragons?

Back in the day, there was one session where the party didn't have a 10-ft pole, so one of the other players made a comment that we did have a 6-ft Irishman, whereupon several members of the party picked up my character and heaved him into the area we thought might be trapped.

 

[prabe]

I don’t buy that.

There's about as much reason to distrust players as there is to distrust GMs, seems to me. I don't entirely disbelieve every horror story I see about either--bad players and bad GMs both exist.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

There's about as much reason to distrust players as there is to distrust GMs, seems to me. I don't entirely disbelieve every horror story I see about either--bad players and bad GMs both exist.

And bad DMs have more power at a table to abuse than bad players do. So your bad DM horror stories tend to be more egregious than bad player horror stories, from my personal experience and from accounts I've seen online.