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I still do not understand why this is such a horrendous problem. The requests for this are going to be a drop in the bucket. It's not...

Sure, there are people who prefer boring games, who prefer TPKs, who prefer Orcs SAing PCs... Whatever, sure.

You're seeing a lot of crap that's not there, when I'm offering a simple way to measure. There are different measures of...

So just using the examples provided before, I guess being boring isn't bad; rejoicing in unfair TPKs isn't bad; having orcs r**e the PCs...

It's a thought construct designed to help see if one's behaviour needs to change or not. If you can't see that, there's nothing for us...

" I don't like running games for evil characters and I have players that don't want it either." So that's a table decision, not a...

It's not that subjective. If the DM engages in behaviour that would drive a player to another game that is exactly the same except it...

Maybe "bad" means something other than "abusive or controlling."

What the hell are you talking about? Agree with me re: what? Did I set that binary you mention?

Perhaps not the same type of bad...but they're all bad in their own way.

Being called bad, when you yourself recognize that you are bad, is insulting? Heck, being called bad at something is insulting? As in...

I guess because some people here think fewer than 3 out of every 100 DMs are bad...if one can't see they might be bad, they are less...

One needs a certain amount of self-reflective ability and modesty to look back and see one's faults...whether looking back 20 years or...

Maybe you can have one chart. The examples given are all examples of being bad at DMing; they might each have a different value (the...

And, so, we're back to blaming players. A player cannot possibly know if a DM is good or bad. Any player who voices such an opinion...