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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlViking" data-source="post: 9820249" data-attributes="member: 6906980">Michael Schumacher was one of the best race car drivers the world has ever known and never once drove a semi.  I grew up in the upper Midwest so I learned long ago how to drive in many weather conditions.  When I took my advanced driving course, there was training on emergency maneuvers and the instructor just shook his head at how well I had done at emergency braking before turning.  At the end we did a lap around a track, the instructor was so surprised at how fast I had done the lap that he initially thought it was a mistake.  While it's not the same I play a racing game where you can do practice laps and see how you compare to others.  I typically get in the top 1% and as high as the top .1%.  Meanwhile I've never driven in a semi nor have I ever had an accident* except for one time when someone rear-ended me.I don't care if my DM would be better at running a BitD campaign if he had actually had previous experience with that game any more than I would care how good they can play piano.  If I want to take ideas from BitD, I can read up on what ideas I could use by typing "what ideas from blades in the dark can I use in my D&D campaign" in my favorite search engine and get pages of input.  On the other hand I don't want to play or run Blades in the Dark, I want to play and run D&D.There are many ways to get better at running D&D games.  In my opinion the best way is to run D&D games but there is no one true way.*I don't count the couple of times I ended up in the ditch as a teen, I was driving a Pinto and still learning.  Then there was the black bear that tried to commit suicide by running in front of me out of the woods at dusk while I was pulling a trailer on 1e in Canadian wilderness.  My wife claimed she could see individual hairs on his posterior, but I somehow managed to see it coming and slow down in time.  Still not sure how.</blockquote>

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