Thomas Shey's latest activity

That's my point though; there was no compromise possible because what you both thought important was the central point. That doesn't...

I don't consider it an insult. I do think acting like their lack of desire to compromise is somehow worse than the GM doing that is...

Well, honestly, there's always the simple case of players who's desires are relatively simply so a game with or without restrictions...

Well, to be clear, I don't generally make that kind of distinction; occasionally I'll use a game that has a lot of baked in setting...

That isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about various options that actually have no bearing on what they wanted to play a...

Which is why I said you need to get to the core of what people want before offering a compromise is practical. I realize people aren't...

Well, honestly, sometimes I think people just do think so about various elements of GMing. its just a question as to whether being...

I believe it to be the better way, but you have no reason to agree with me unless I convince you. That's the point of discussing...

Though it gets weird after you've done it enough years. When I started I was probably equally interested in playing and GMing. These...

That would put me in a position of dictating information to them, which I also try to avoid. I prefer settings where everyone has some...

Eh. Sometimes people just don't like the whole thrust of a game. I've sometimes steered around games in some genres because I knew one...

To be fair, if you're doing a more-or-less original setting with any detail, that may be prohibitive in lead time. Ideally you're...

If the core of what they want is something you don't want, then indeed, compromise isn't possible. But that still doesn't make a...

If you're going for a gritty quasi-simulationist sort of setting it can work adequately (RuneQuest and most other BRP system games have...

I believe I've said that's sometimes necessary. I just think "No one actually wants to compromise" is not an accurate description when...