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It can be difficult to find a good game that another DM wants to run.

Yeah, it got personal. But I will leave it at that.

Unfortunately for me, I mostly DM. His campaign was the first campaign in a LONG time that I got to play in. Unfortunately, life happened and I had to cut back on my gaming

I do not, so I would appreciate an explanation :D

This...exactly this

True. However, as I mentioned, most of us in the group are mature enough that if he didn't like what we were playing, he could have simply said something. We had been playing together for years. I never used the social contract to beat my DM up...in fact, I was sure in our previous campaign, to...

I will again reiterate; he was there during the discussion of our characters. My character was not finished; just started. His stats were complete, skills, spells, and equipment. I had not chosen his background yet, and only mentioned it when we started session zero. And, once again...he...

What is wrong with having most of your character done beforehand, knowing full well that the DM was present when character concepts were discussed? What is wrong with having everything but the background (which he wanted to coordinate) done? Doesn't it save time? What else can be added to the...

Considering the amount of time you have spent bashing these same players, then you can see where I'm coming from.

Well, you were there as we were discussing player concepts. You were there when we brought up what we wanted to play. You were there when we asked questions like what classes were allowed, what was the generation method, etc. I fail to see how creating a character's attributes, class, skills...

He already burnt that bridge. Not only that, but I believe it was he who posted criticism of his own players on a forum that he knows full well his players are members of. I posted clarification of his not-so-true statement. That isn't criticism of him...that is pointing out inaccuracies. And...

He's not being completely truthful, though. He discussed with his players that the game was going to carry a nautical theme, and that's it. His players discussed with him and each other their character concepts. He approved of those character concepts. The session zero was a discussion of the...

I have one rule when generating characters; play what you want to play. For example: I ran a retelling of the War of the Lance for Dragonlance a few years ago. DL has some pretty restrictive class selection; if you are running the original modules, you can't run clerics. Sorcerers and Warlocks...

Like I said...always the players' faults.

I once had a DM who pitched a game for my group. It was a low magic campaign, so the DM requested that we not make characters that could cast at-will type spells (i.e. cantrips). The party was reticent, but because we had all been gaming together for a while, we agreed. A few of us came up with...

One of the best characters I've ever played was a Kender fighter named Phistletain Windwhistler (or Phist for short) who aspired to become a Knight of Solamnia. He tried (many times unsuccessfully) to follow the Code and the Measure to the best of his ability. At times, I would (for comic...

My main DLance campaign takes place between the end of the War of the Lance and the beginning of the Summer of Chaos (it's one I've run several times). A few years ago I ran a heavily altered version of the War of the Lance (yes, it involved time travel) as an introduction to my main campaign...

In Dragons of Summer Flame, Raistlin clarified that the story was just a legend. There was no truth to it.

Actually, he mentioned that he wasn't interested in sex...it distracted from his pursuit of Magic. He saw Lauranna's beauty because she did not age to his eyes...he admired her beauty, not lust. Crysania he didn't lust after...he manipulated her in his quest to tie her to him so that he could...

I understand that some of the DLance novels are a bit outdated, but they have worked on changing the perception of some of the racial biases in the world. There are a group of Kender called the Afflicted; they have lost much of the kleptomaniacal and carefree ways of the rest of their race...