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Burning Questions: Why Do DMs Limit Official WOTC Material?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7762746" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Re: the chef analogy, I think this is a much better analogy. Let's say you are a chef. A great chef specializing in vegetarian meals, working at your vegetation restaurant. A group of customers call in wanting catering and say, "Hey man, we really want you to make us some grilled steak and BBQ chicken." Your response is, "Well, I don't really cook that. Not only am I not good at cooking meat since I never use it, I really don't want to, because it doesn't fit with my vision of cooking. By all means, one of you can cook, or you can find someone else to cook for you." You're physically capable of cooking meat, but it's not anywhere near what you'd like to do, or what you're good at, and they knew beforehand what your limitations were because you were right up front with what kinds of things you do make.</p><p></p><p>According to some of the terms people have used in this thread, you are entitled, bad, a failed chef, a coward, and selfish. </p><p></p><p></p><p>And people wonder why there is almost always a shortage of DMs. Not many people want to DM if the group of players has an attitude that the DM is there to cater to their preferences and desires even if it runs counter to the ideas and type of game the DM wants to run, and if he or she doesn't, he or she is insulted for it. You shouldn't try to force a DM to run a game against what they want any more than you should force a restaurant to make things they don't make. And at least with a restaurant, you're paying them. The DM gets this grief and is doing it for free.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7762746, member: 15700"] Re: the chef analogy, I think this is a much better analogy. Let's say you are a chef. A great chef specializing in vegetarian meals, working at your vegetation restaurant. A group of customers call in wanting catering and say, "Hey man, we really want you to make us some grilled steak and BBQ chicken." Your response is, "Well, I don't really cook that. Not only am I not good at cooking meat since I never use it, I really don't want to, because it doesn't fit with my vision of cooking. By all means, one of you can cook, or you can find someone else to cook for you." You're physically capable of cooking meat, but it's not anywhere near what you'd like to do, or what you're good at, and they knew beforehand what your limitations were because you were right up front with what kinds of things you do make. According to some of the terms people have used in this thread, you are entitled, bad, a failed chef, a coward, and selfish. And people wonder why there is almost always a shortage of DMs. Not many people want to DM if the group of players has an attitude that the DM is there to cater to their preferences and desires even if it runs counter to the ideas and type of game the DM wants to run, and if he or she doesn't, he or she is insulted for it. You shouldn't try to force a DM to run a game against what they want any more than you should force a restaurant to make things they don't make. And at least with a restaurant, you're paying them. The DM gets this grief and is doing it for free. [/QUOTE]
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