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If the fun of everyone comes first, then why is it you cannot accept something that isn't fun for you, but would be fun for others?

This again assumes a GM somehow can never deal with anything they may be unhappy about. There are going to be some brightline issues...

You are all young tortles, freshly hatched. You all start on the beach, far from the ocean. Next to you is a wooden chest, possibly...

No, but the GM that says, 'only Tortlemen' certainly is. They would have my undying respect.

You know, aside from looking kind of dopey and comedic, the Bakshi version still captured Sam's essential character.

"It's a fantasy world, Steve! You can't just name your character Tom! It breaks my verisimilitude!"

He was entitled. All that poetry and making up stuff about the gameworld. Mainly the poetry.

But then there was that one guy who wanted join the game to play an "enigmatic force of nature". He was extremely quirky, totally OP...

So true. His original plans was to keep the setting to Tolkien races only. Never let your players buy the "Metaphors for Moral...

Tolkien initially said no hobbits! But then he let one player be a hobbit and when three more made the same request he was trapped by an...

Oh yeah. The GM says 'no Tortlemen'. What an auteur they must be.

Oh good lord, my eyes just rolled right out of my head! Interesting who you are calling out for exaggeration, when it is flying fast...

And we've been told that players are bratty and entitled jerks if we dare ask for anything other than whatever we're offered and the...

I arranged a playtest of one once but no-one showed up

The general impression I get from DMs who are uninterested in their players is that they have crafted some aspect of their game (story...