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Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Virginia, claims to have been struck by lightning 7 times. Does that mean that being struck by lightning...

That's likely the disconnect you are having with a lot of us here. Bad DMs are the ones who abuse authority, railroad, etc. Boring...

Not necessarily, but I've read a lot of games and many, many of the non-D&D-based ones take themselves pretty seriously.

All over the game, all over the books, they talk about having fun and imagination. I don't get the feeling from any forward in any core...

As I said, I wouldn't rate all but a couple of DMs I've gad over decades of play as truly bad. I find it hard to believe that when out...

Perhaps Greyhawk wasn't the best example, then. My exposure to it has always been as a lower-magic somewhat gritty setting, as opposed...

The Deck would trump the Phylactery were I ruling on it. The Phylactery can warn you of unfavourable alignment effects of intended...

If someone wants something that far different from what I'm already running then they can DM it. If I'm invited to play, I'll then...

Alignment's a great tool, the lore around it in D&D (such as the Upper and Lower Planes) is incredible, and it's useful for both DMs and...

I left a game more than once. Sometimes I came back later, sometimes I didn't. I paid the social cost every time, and moved on. I'm...

I didnt think it was controversial to assume the GM by far does the most work in a traditional RPG like Dungeons and Dragons? I think...

In my experience the DM also hosts, almost without exception other than one-offs.

If you don't like what the DM is doing and can't convince them otherwise or compromise without spoiling your fun you should find a...

This is assuming tradition distribution of power. The GM, largely or entirely, makes the world and controls everything that isn't the...

They can reflect, but that doesn't mean they should just start running what the players want if it wouldn't be fun for them.