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<blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 6624839" data-attributes="member: 232">Yes, they do have a choice. It might be no gaming or bad gaming but they have a choice. You're right about one thing though. Some people have few gaming friends and they are unable or unwilling to find different people to game with. Some people do not have access to the internet or are unwilling to play on line games. There is a saying in Tabletop RPGs &quot;No gaming is better then bad gaming.&quot;Everyone has different experiences and situations. I know a few dozen local gamers personally and through boards like EN World I know of many other gamers in my greater metropolitan area. However, even with such a plethora of gamers I don't give players ultimatums like my way or the highway except in pretty extreme cases. But if at our table five of the six players really want to roll dice for characters then that is what we will do for all characters. It's not the DM telling that sixth player to leave; it is the majority of the group that wants to play a certain way. And this doesn't have to be about rolling dice for character creation. It could also be the game we play, or the time and place we play. I am very open with my players and we talk about these decisions before each campaign. Not everyone wanted to play Edge of the Empire but most of them did so the ones that would have preferred not to stuck with it knowing the game was not going to last forever. It's all about compromise. To go back to my Edge of Empire example. When we agreed to play that we also agreed that when that was finished we would play the game the one guy who was not into Edge of Empires wanted to play. We are doing that right now and when that finishes up in a month we will move on to something one of the other guys wants to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crothian, post: 6624839, member: 232"] Yes, they do have a choice. It might be no gaming or bad gaming but they have a choice. You're right about one thing though. Some people have few gaming friends and they are unable or unwilling to find different people to game with. Some people do not have access to the internet or are unwilling to play on line games. There is a saying in Tabletop RPGs "No gaming is better then bad gaming." Everyone has different experiences and situations. I know a few dozen local gamers personally and through boards like EN World I know of many other gamers in my greater metropolitan area. However, even with such a plethora of gamers I don't give players ultimatums like my way or the highway except in pretty extreme cases. But if at our table five of the six players really want to roll dice for characters then that is what we will do for all characters. It's not the DM telling that sixth player to leave; it is the majority of the group that wants to play a certain way. And this doesn't have to be about rolling dice for character creation. It could also be the game we play, or the time and place we play. I am very open with my players and we talk about these decisions before each campaign. Not everyone wanted to play Edge of the Empire but most of them did so the ones that would have preferred not to stuck with it knowing the game was not going to last forever. It's all about compromise. To go back to my Edge of Empire example. When we agreed to play that we also agreed that when that was finished we would play the game the one guy who was not into Edge of Empires wanted to play. We are doing that right now and when that finishes up in a month we will move on to something one of the other guys wants to do. [/QUOTE]

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