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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6453650" data-attributes="member: 5143">None of them really want to DM because they want a more passive experience.&nbsp; They want someone to tell them a story that they get to interact with.&nbsp; It's my job to provide that story.&nbsp; I'm bad at providing stories, so I look to other people who write better than I do to write them for me.&nbsp; Thus, I buy adventures.I'm not sure why you wouldn't be fully engaged simply because it is a module.&nbsp; I really am confused by this attitude that a module is something to look down upon and show derision towards.&nbsp; For me, it's almost always the opposite.&nbsp; Most of the DMs I've played under that have attempted to write their own stories end up writing contrived crap that they think is a masterpiece.&nbsp; They'll run around telling anyone who will listen about how great a DM they are and how their players are lucky that they put the extra effort in to provide a REAL D&amp;D experience instead of subjecting them to modules.It's the same way I'd feel if one of my friends came up to me and said &quot;Hey, which would you rather read, A Game of Thrones or a novel I wrote myself?&quot;&nbsp; I'll take a story written by a professional writer over one written by a guy who wrote a story in the spare time between work and watching Arrow that evening.When people run around saying &quot;I can't believe you are subjecting your players to professionally written adventures when you should be providing top notch stories like the ones I write!&quot; I can't help but feel frustrated.&nbsp; Especially when my original question that created this thread was &quot;How much should the game be about the player and how much should it be about the character?&quot; and the answer I got back was mostly &quot;Yeah, your problem is that you're running modules.&nbsp; They aren't real D&amp;D anyways.&quot;As for your statement.&nbsp; The reason you should be fully engaged is that you are enjoying the story, you are thankful that someone else is doing the DMing so that you have a chance to play and you want to play D&amp;D and someone else is nice enough to volunteer to give you that opportunity.I could not imagine ever looking on a DM with enough disdain that you'd treat them like they were replaceable.&nbsp; Even if EVERYONE in the group wanted to DM.&nbsp; You give them respect because they were the one that had to put in the extra effort to write an adventure or prepare an adventure they bought in order to provide you with an experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6453650, member: 5143"] None of them really want to DM because they want a more passive experience. They want someone to tell them a story that they get to interact with. It's my job to provide that story. I'm bad at providing stories, so I look to other people who write better than I do to write them for me. Thus, I buy adventures. I'm not sure why you wouldn't be fully engaged simply because it is a module. I really am confused by this attitude that a module is something to look down upon and show derision towards. For me, it's almost always the opposite. Most of the DMs I've played under that have attempted to write their own stories end up writing contrived crap that they think is a masterpiece. They'll run around telling anyone who will listen about how great a DM they are and how their players are lucky that they put the extra effort in to provide a REAL D&D experience instead of subjecting them to modules. It's the same way I'd feel if one of my friends came up to me and said "Hey, which would you rather read, A Game of Thrones or a novel I wrote myself?" I'll take a story written by a professional writer over one written by a guy who wrote a story in the spare time between work and watching Arrow that evening. When people run around saying "I can't believe you are subjecting your players to professionally written adventures when you should be providing top notch stories like the ones I write!" I can't help but feel frustrated. Especially when my original question that created this thread was "How much should the game be about the player and how much should it be about the character?" and the answer I got back was mostly "Yeah, your problem is that you're running modules. They aren't real D&D anyways." As for your statement. The reason you should be fully engaged is that you are enjoying the story, you are thankful that someone else is doing the DMing so that you have a chance to play and you want to play D&D and someone else is nice enough to volunteer to give you that opportunity. I could not imagine ever looking on a DM with enough disdain that you'd treat them like they were replaceable. Even if EVERYONE in the group wanted to DM. You give them respect because they were the one that had to put in the extra effort to write an adventure or prepare an adventure they bought in order to provide you with an experience. [/QUOTE]

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