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<blockquote data-quote="oreofox" data-source="post: 7762717" data-attributes="member: 6776240"><p>Why does every setting need to be Forgotten Realms or Golarion from Pathfinder? Sure, there are many people who enjoy the so-called "kitchen sink" settings, and I know at least Golarion was specifically designed in such a way (despite them nearly tunnel-visioning on Varisia, though not the degree that WotC tunnel-visions on the Sword Coast), and those types of settings can be fun (I personally enjoyed Golarion in the 2-ish years I played Pathfinder), but not everyone likes playing in them and not everyone likes running them.</p><p></p><p>Say you have a group of 6 people, and this group is lucky enough to have 3 people who enjoy DMing. One DM loves running the kitchen-sink setting, one prefers gritty realism low-magic settings (so no spellcasters and so on), and one prefers human-only. Now the kitchen-sink DM just finished up a campaign, and is a little burned out on being DM for a while. So, it falls on one of the other 2. Gritty DM says he will run one, but one player doesn't like to play anything but wizards, another prefers spellcasters as well but reluctantly will play a rogue, and another just doesn't really like the whole gritty realism type. The others don't care what they play, they just want to play. So, what happens? Does Gritty DM have to "suck it up" because 2 players don't want to play a gritty game (with one reluctant) and change his preferred DMing setting thus highly likely the game will suck because the DM is forced into running something he doesn't like? Does Kitchen-Sink DM get forced into DMing another campaign despite being burned out thus possibly tanking the fun of the campaign? Do you force one of the 3 non-DMs to DM something? Or do 2 players sit out this campaign, possibly still hanging out and playing video games or another activity while the other 4 play D&D? The other option is no one plays D&D until Kitchen-Sink DM recovers from his burn-out and starts up something else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oreofox, post: 7762717, member: 6776240"] Why does every setting need to be Forgotten Realms or Golarion from Pathfinder? Sure, there are many people who enjoy the so-called "kitchen sink" settings, and I know at least Golarion was specifically designed in such a way (despite them nearly tunnel-visioning on Varisia, though not the degree that WotC tunnel-visions on the Sword Coast), and those types of settings can be fun (I personally enjoyed Golarion in the 2-ish years I played Pathfinder), but not everyone likes playing in them and not everyone likes running them. Say you have a group of 6 people, and this group is lucky enough to have 3 people who enjoy DMing. One DM loves running the kitchen-sink setting, one prefers gritty realism low-magic settings (so no spellcasters and so on), and one prefers human-only. Now the kitchen-sink DM just finished up a campaign, and is a little burned out on being DM for a while. So, it falls on one of the other 2. Gritty DM says he will run one, but one player doesn't like to play anything but wizards, another prefers spellcasters as well but reluctantly will play a rogue, and another just doesn't really like the whole gritty realism type. The others don't care what they play, they just want to play. So, what happens? Does Gritty DM have to "suck it up" because 2 players don't want to play a gritty game (with one reluctant) and change his preferred DMing setting thus highly likely the game will suck because the DM is forced into running something he doesn't like? Does Kitchen-Sink DM get forced into DMing another campaign despite being burned out thus possibly tanking the fun of the campaign? Do you force one of the 3 non-DMs to DM something? Or do 2 players sit out this campaign, possibly still hanging out and playing video games or another activity while the other 4 play D&D? The other option is no one plays D&D until Kitchen-Sink DM recovers from his burn-out and starts up something else. [/QUOTE]
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