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Tastes of... failure

You guys lost me. The hypothetical players and DMs that y'all are talking about are my real-life friends. We respect each other a lot...

Precisely! Could not have put it better myself (most likely much worse). When the world is so precious to the GM that they nail down...

The game's been out for 12 years (and the D&D milieu for a lot more). All of us have a ton of character ideas floating around in our...

Agreed. Quite a few posters seem to be coming from a background where they design a campaign setting for weeks/months, and then look...

It absolutely depends on the game (or edition for D&D, which I generally see as separate games). For AD&D, I would broadly agree with...

I think a key difference here is who your players are and what your relationship is to them. I play with people that I've known for...

Until it's time to, um, 'release a second edition'

How is rejecting someone's ideas without discussion and ejecting them for questioning it not treating that person as disposable?

Uhmerica

I agree with you. When this all came up not long ago I was one of the people arguing that the DM has an obligation to have that...

And? Like don't play with unreasonable players, don't play with controlling dms. It's not rocket surgery. If you meet a player who...

It's like the Best GMs say, "Argue to find out what happens!" It's poster agency in action!

:looks at the news:

Or your belief that players are interchangeable and disposable.