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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2853642" data-attributes="member: 53">Which is the disadvantage of a coarse-grained system, as well.  If you don't have a good DM, or a DM whose tastes run different from yours, then you won't enjoy yourself as much.  You are putting a lot of your character development in his hands.Even the best GMs can have issues in certain areas.  I've played under some DMs that are considered to great DMs by a large number of people.  However, there is a tendancy to give advantages to certain players over others at times (the "improvisational actor" players get a huge amount of spotlight time by one GM, but at the expense of the other PCs, for example).A lot of people tend to assume you'll have a great GM.  Unfortunately, in practice, it doesn't happen as often as some of the discussions you'll see here.  Sure, you want to avoid the poor GMs, unless you have no other choice. However, sometimes you'll do well with the average GMs, or good GMs, as long as you can keep a certain amount of control over your characters.If you have a great GM, it rarely matters what system you play.  However, system plays a large deal the further down the totem pole you go (and the further from your playstyle tastes the GM lies).</blockquote>