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And yet I'm not the one who is making the strident claim: "Thus your concerns are never valid and I don't have to do anything to respond...

Sure, I think that's a perfectly reasonable reason, and almost surely what actually causes it. I am not in any way saying that the...

Why? If the GM thinks that a particular thing would be particularly interesting, I don't see the benefit in keeping that secret. EDIT...

To me, this just seems strange - there's a scene that you as GM are hoping to run, but you don't run it, because . . . a player made...

And saying your position again and again won't change mine. You have to actually SHOW something. In my experience, changes outside of...

Well, the intent was: the ancient enmity was gone a long time ago. As in...I literally specified that the two gods in ancient scripture...

And to me, many of them look like 100% legitimate complaints from someone trying to work with others but concerned about a problem...

Okay but now we're getting two conflicting standards which functionally add up to "never bring up anything". Because on the one hand...

Yeah. Like I don't play evil characters (it makes me genuinely feel like a terrible person), but even my most goody-two-shoes Paladin...

Seriously? Anything less than "instantaneous death" is not serious enough? I'm sorry, I just...I can't wrap my brain around having...

Then it should not be used to excuse behavior that players find troubling. That is how it has been used. Repeatedly, in this very...

Okay, but like...I genuinely do not see the difference between this and the (entirely made-up) example I gave up-thread with Ranakht the...

I dunno. Conversing with people like adults. Being willing to listen and make accommodations. Being willing to actually give as well as...

Yep! As I've said many, many times: Every time folks who promote the...let's call it "DM maximalism" position, players who ever do...

And as your phrasing shows, they're treated like the villain and there's a lot of social pressure not to do so. I don't consider that a...