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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 2584169" data-attributes="member: 20805">I like Raven Crowkings Baker analogy..  If you only make chocolate chip cookies.. and the clients go elsewhere you will either learn to bake something else or clients who want chocolate chip will show up. I game with freinds. I offered to provide entertainment in the form of a RPing game. As the GM, I must see to it that most of my freinds are mostly happy with the outcome. Its not an absolute 100% of everything to everyone.. in this DnD is a shared experience.. more akin to a play with a director who lost the script than it is to anything else.In my years of being a GM, I have realized that I must provide the group with what they are looking for. This mean my brand new Paranoia XP books {replacements of my old ones that got destroyed in a flood} will probably never get to see game time soon. Same with my Black Company book, which I bought mainly to read but would love to run. Ditto: SW WEG, ST:LUG, Aliens {by Fasa}, etc.. etc..Give me a group of players who want to play game X {and a copy of the books} and I will gladly do the work it takes to make the setting as entertaining for my freinds as I can. Of course.. give me a GM willing to run game X and some freinds to join in with..forget running it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Right now I am the only one in my group that has the time to prep for games. The two others willing to run are busy with work/life {new kid.. new job} and rarely make it to our sessions in the first place.IMHO, what it boils down to is this:  If you wish to participate in a game, realize that your 'fun' is not of paramount importance, and that when you do not have 'fun', don't be an ___ and spoil it for the ones that are. Doesn't matter which side of the screen you are on. That being said.. continued lack of 'fun' is worth leaving the game for. A recent experience in Georgia reminded me how annoying some gamers can be to a new-comer. Left that game, started my own with the other new-comers...anywho...</blockquote>

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