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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flights of Fancy" data-source="post: 9669572" data-attributes="member: 7037975">I don't DM often--ever really. But as a player I love a good railroad. That might sound strange but when I play D&D I am there to take part in a story, make some choices, and see where the adventure takes me. Like the old Pick-A-Path to adventure books.I have a hard job and a mentally exhausting one--so game time is for fun and relaxation (and sometimes beers!). I like it simple and fast-paced with a nice dose of humor thrown in.I don't have complex backgrounds for my PCs and I don't have "story arcs" or any such thing I care about. Some other player wants their PC to avenge a loved one and have the DM make that part of the adventure? Ok I guess, but I won't do that. If the DM suggests something based on my PC? Fine, whatever, let's just have fun.Now, as a player what I don't care for is when a game gets bogged down. Players taking too long on their turns, not paying attention so they don't know what to do on their turn, not knowing the stuff their PCs can do and wasting time looking stuff up. I can work pretty easily with most DMs, it is players like this that really will kill a game for me.Other things like roll in the open or secret, fudging rolls or not, whatever. Man, if you need to fudge a roll to have fun, knock yourself out. If it gets too obvious or silly, it might bug me, but otherwise we're all there to enjoy ourselves so as long as your fun doesn't ruin mine, knock yourself out.I guess that's it. Ad hoc DMing is fine unless it gets ridiculous. Sandbox is meh for me, I'll throw a dart at the map and say "let's go there."</blockquote>

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