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Not to mention even a trickster god isn't going to be happy at being treated like a servant and having what he's doing constantly be...

I think we have vastly different ideas on what makes a trickster deity (or its followers) tick. Gaming the system would be the purview...

Poor. Not bad. They are poor at the game, not a bad person. Bad DMs are jerks who abuse their authority. Short of that, you aren't a...

Below average is 49% of all DMs. You have a very different definition of bad than I do.

A Cleric to a trickste A Cleric to a trickster deity would embrace the chaos and randomness and just draw!

I'll echo that! It's like front-row seats to a reality TV show. Ooh! Hand me the popcorn!!!

If no-one else is willing to run what you want to play there's only two remaining options: either you run it, or it doesn't get run at...

They choose not to play because their GM doesn't want to run the game they want to play, and they're unwilling to look into alternatives...

What I'm saying is, if their GM doesn't want to run their game, they can't force them. So your other options are find another GM, be...

At the moment, perhaps; but if you allow that and then don't force an immediate card draw you're opening the door to abuse: they keep...

Correct. Divinations would not work on these things other than to maybe tell you their effects are or may be random and...

I think there's a difference between 'bad', where a DM is actively trying to hose the players or constantly repeats the same mistakes...

And yet, when you get a whole table full of that guys it can produce one rockin' and entertaining game. I speak from experience on this...

The issue I wanted to show was that GM facing rules and the home brew powers of D&D are in direct contradiction with each other. You...

I don't think it specifies one way or the other or give anything that would suggest one way or the other. I believe a DM has to decide...