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<blockquote data-quote="NerfedWizard" data-source="post: 4576500" data-attributes="member: 68865">What you have to remember if you're the type who never shuts their mouth (I am) is that the group would still have fun without you (as long as there's enough of them). The group I play in with OGB existed long before I joined and it's not as if they didn't FUNCTION without my big mouth.&nbsp;DMs/GMs etc. have faults too. For instance, even though we've played and enjoyed several games reffed by other referees which have been plot-heavy, OGB seems to be convinced that the group can't get along with any games which don't consist 99% of hack and slash. The fact that he's often reffing the hack-n-slash-oriented 3rd edition of a certain well known commercially available RPG doesn't help!&nbsp;My main fault as a referee used to be rail-roading the party to get them to where I wanted them to be, probably out of anxiety at not being able to think of anything interesting to happen on the spot if they went wildly off course. I guess one solution to that is to have &quot;slot-in&quot; encounter ideas ready, things which can occur anywhere, but generally over the last few years I've grown less anxious about that since learning from other referees whose games I've played in. Learning to emphasise roleplay, description and narrative over hack and slash seems to have helped with this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NerfedWizard, post: 4576500, member: 68865"] What you have to remember if you're the type who never shuts their mouth (I am) is that the group would still have fun without you (as long as there's enough of them). The group I play in with OGB existed long before I joined and it's not as if they didn't FUNCTION without my big mouth. DMs/GMs etc. have faults too. For instance, even though we've played and enjoyed several games reffed by other referees which have been plot-heavy, OGB seems to be convinced that the group can't get along with any games which don't consist 99% of hack and slash. The fact that he's often reffing the hack-n-slash-oriented 3rd edition of a certain well known commercially available RPG doesn't help! My main fault as a referee used to be rail-roading the party to get them to where I wanted them to be, probably out of anxiety at not being able to think of anything interesting to happen on the spot if they went wildly off course. I guess one solution to that is to have "slot-in" encounter ideas ready, things which can occur anywhere, but generally over the last few years I've grown less anxious about that since learning from other referees whose games I've played in. Learning to emphasise roleplay, description and narrative over hack and slash seems to have helped with this. [/QUOTE]

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