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Was wondering about that! Because I agree, it's not about skill at the game, it's mostly about attitude. The truly bad GMs I've...

That way when a new DM asks for advice you can just pull down your pants and moon them?

The difference between you and a bad DM is that you wanted to improve, and you learned from your mistakes. A bad DM doesn't do that. A...

We have very different definitions of what a bad DM is. To me a truly bad DM doesn't care what their players want, perhaps abuses the...

No. You are potentially a good player who is bad at the game. Some of them, the ones who remain in gangs, abuse women, etc. are bad...

An inexperienced DM is ony bad if they don't or won't learn from mistakes made.

Um, yes? Isn't this like the tenth time one of us has said it?? It's a number pulled out of thin air. I do not agree with it. But...

There's a significant amount of guidance throughout the DMG, I will say that the 2024 DMG does a better job of it than the 2014 one did...

So anyone who is not great, or at least good, is bad. We can't just have decent, average GMs or GMs who make the occasional mistake...

Good grief. 🙃

So anything less than "average" is bad. Which is why I think the poll was meaningless.

So case in point. You decide that any DM that doesn't run an exciting game to your expectations to be "bad". Which is fine, it's a...

So you want the rules to offer guidelines? Like the ones we already have where the DMG has a section on ensuring fun for all, having...

I may not care for the music from a death metal band so it's bad music for me, but they have their fans. In the meantime a truly bad...