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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3452019" data-attributes="member: 18280">If it becomes &quot;a lot less palatable&quot;, it is likely that your vision differs so greatly from your DM's vision that you should either start your own game, or find a new DM.No one is obligated to another person's vision.&nbsp; If you don't like my vision, don't play in my game.&nbsp; If your vision doesn't mesh with my vision, you won't be playing in my game.&nbsp; Which is not to say that my vision is absolutely inflexible -- I'd be sitting alone in the dark, if that were the case -- or that my imagination is better than yours.&nbsp; What it means is that, for the effort that I am putting in, I get to create the world I want.&nbsp; If you put in the effort, you get to create the world you want.As a DM, I firmly believe that you should cater to your strengths and bolser your weaknesses.&nbsp; As a player, simply because the workload and responsibility is less, you don't have the same concerns about catering to your strengths.&nbsp; It is easier to be a player than it is to DM.&nbsp; The more your strengths run toward complex world-building, the more true this is.I would never DM Eberron, because that setting doesn't cater to my strengths.&nbsp; The experience would be subpar to my homebrew, not because Eberron is subpar, but because my homebrew is designed to cater to my strengths as a DM and bolster my weaknesses.&nbsp; I would have no difficulty at all playing in Eberron.&nbsp; Likewise a whole host of other settings/game systems I'm sure.This is not at all the same as saying &quot;Your imagination isn't as good as mine.&quot;EDIT:&nbsp; One further thought.&nbsp; I can easily imagine a character that would be interesting and fun to play in any setting that I have ever encountered.&nbsp; If the sum total of your ability to come up with a character for a 7th Sea campaign setting is &quot;Warforged Ninja&quot;, the DM's imagination probably is better than yours.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />(And that is a general &quot;you&quot;, not a specific &quot;you&quot; directed at any actual person.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3452019, member: 18280"] If it becomes "a lot less palatable", it is likely that your vision differs so greatly from your DM's vision that you should either start your own game, or find a new DM. No one is obligated to another person's vision. If you don't like my vision, don't play in my game. If your vision doesn't mesh with my vision, you won't be playing in my game. Which is not to say that my vision is absolutely inflexible -- I'd be sitting alone in the dark, if that were the case -- or that my imagination is better than yours. What it means is that, for the effort that I am putting in, I get to create the world I want. If you put in the effort, you get to create the world you want. As a DM, I firmly believe that you should cater to your strengths and bolser your weaknesses. As a player, simply because the workload and responsibility is less, you don't have the same concerns about catering to your strengths. It is easier to be a player than it is to DM. The more your strengths run toward complex world-building, the more true this is. I would never DM Eberron, because that setting doesn't cater to my strengths. The experience would be subpar to my homebrew, not because Eberron is subpar, but because my homebrew is designed to cater to my strengths as a DM and bolster my weaknesses. I would have no difficulty at all playing in Eberron. Likewise a whole host of other settings/game systems I'm sure. This is not at all the same as saying "Your imagination isn't as good as mine." EDIT: One further thought. I can easily imagine a character that would be interesting and fun to play in any setting that I have ever encountered. If the sum total of your ability to come up with a character for a 7th Sea campaign setting is "Warforged Ninja", the DM's imagination probably [i]is[/i] better than yours. :lol: (And that is a general "you", not a specific "you" directed at any actual person.) [/QUOTE]

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