D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard.

[Hussar]

You have repeatedly stated that I cannot be as good a DM or player without playing other games. Are you changing your mind now?

No. This is your interpretation of what I have said, but, it is not what I actually said. I said you will be a BETTER DM if you play other games. Not that you cannot be a good DM. The opposite of BETTER is not bad. You can be a perfectly good driver without learning to drive other cars or vehicles. But, learning to drive other vehicles will make you a BETTER driver.

I hope that's clear enough now.

 

[Hussar]

Nah, you haven't missed anything. It's been stated multiple times that playing multiple games makes you a better GM and player (and driving a tank makes you a better driver) so logically I'm worse at being a player and DM because my TTRPG gaming is limited to D&D.

Being worse =/= being bad.

 

[aco175]

I'm not gonna read 45 pages of this thread, but:

It is only 23 pages if you set your preferences to 20 post per page.

 

[AlViking]

No. This is your interpretation of what I have said, but, it is not what I actually said. I said you will be a BETTER DM if you play other games. Not that you cannot be a good DM. The opposite of BETTER is not bad. You can be a perfectly good driver without learning to drive other cars or vehicles. But, learning to drive other vehicles will make you a BETTER driver.

I hope that's clear enough now.

You should double check your accounts then because someone has hijacked it since you obviously didn't come straight out and say "I don't think you can be a good player or a good DM without ever trying another game.". By that logic every race car driver should be lining up to take truck driving school ... but surprise surprise they don't.

I'm not sure I actually agree with that. There is just so much to learn from experiencing other games. It would be like saying you can be a good cook if you ONLY cook food from one country. Yes, you might cook that country's food really well, but, it's an extremely limited palate. No chef worth the salt would ever claim that only learning to cook Mexican food (as an example) is a good way to learn to cook.

Heck, even the idea of driving. Sure, you can learn to drive only driving one car. You might really like that car. You might even drive pretty well with that car, but, unless you actually experience driving other kinds of cars, you aren't a good driver. You can't be. You can't understand why other drivers do what they do without having any experience with those vehicles.

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life. I've learned FAR more about how to run a game from running other systems and then coming back to D&D than I ever learned from just running D&D. Whether it be stuff I want to do or stuff I don't want to do. Either way.

So, no, I don't think you can be a good player or a good DM without ever trying another game.

It's all complete **** as far as I'm concerned.