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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5728802" data-attributes="member: 151">I may not be expressing myself well, here.&nbsp; There was, and this should be clear I mean 'in my experience', a perception that many DMs in the late 1970s and early 1980s saw D&amp;D in a competitive light, with an adversarial relationship to their players.&nbsp; There was also, IMHO, a perception among many that everyone had hear stories about DMs who behaved this way, most likely far in excess of any reality.&nbsp; I have no idea how this applied to whole, any more than I know how many 'Monty Haul' DMs actually existed.I attribute at least part of that to inexperienced DMs who were running games during the D&amp;D fad/boom of the early 1980s who actually had little interest in role-playing, but had heard of this D&amp;D thing and ran some games.&nbsp; I know I've personally experienced both killer DMs and monty-haul DMs in my life, but I wouldn't classify them as the norm, even then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 5728802, member: 151"] I may not be expressing myself well, here. There was, and this should be clear I mean 'in my experience', a perception that many DMs in the late 1970s and early 1980s saw D&D in a competitive light, with an adversarial relationship to their players. There was also, IMHO, a perception among many that everyone had hear stories about DMs who behaved this way, most likely far in excess of any reality. I have no idea how this applied to whole, any more than I know how many 'Monty Haul' DMs actually existed. I attribute at least part of that to inexperienced DMs who were running games during the D&D fad/boom of the early 1980s who actually had little interest in role-playing, but had heard of this D&D thing and ran some games. I know I've personally experienced both killer DMs and monty-haul DMs in my life, but I wouldn't classify them as the norm, even then. [/QUOTE]

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