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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9817894" data-attributes="member: 23751">Spreading out your knowledge helps you become a better generalist. You'll have skills that fall outside of the specialty to use, and that can be good.  However, your skill at any one specific thing isn't going to be nearly as good as a specialist.If you are just going in for a check-up, you want to see a generalist who can figure out if anything is going wrong somewhere with your body based on what you tell the doctor you've been feeling like since the last visit. Or if you're going in because you've been having some kind of pain.  If you do something and are having bad knee pain, you don't want a generalist or brain surgeon, you want someone who has dedicated their life to fixing knees.  The specialist will be far better at it than any general doctor will ever be.RPGs are like that.  Broadening your knowledge will give you skills outside of D&D that you can bring into the game, and if you prefer your game experience to be D&D with extras that is great. I've played with DMs like that and while those extras can be enjoyable, they do alter the way the game of D&D feels.If you just want a pure D&D experience, though, you're going to want someone who is a D&D specialist, who has been DMing it consistently for years, and gotten really, really good at running D&D.Both ways to play are good.  Neither way is objectively better than the other.  It's just a matter of taste.</blockquote>

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