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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thebalrog" data-source="post: 227414" data-attributes="member: 5047">Although I understand Pielorinho's position having been in it myself, I do disagree with him.Playing D&D is a great experience for me, it always has been weather I take the part of the DM or the player.  But everyone I've ever played with has always understood that there is just as much if not more responsibility to being a DM as there is to being a player.Both the DM and the players are there to have fun and no matter what side I'm on I consider it a succesful gaming session only if both items occur.Additionally DM's don't usually want to be bad DM's and most will, even if they don't show it, appreciate the player feedback which is a very important part of the DMing process.Furthermore I think you bringing the issue to the message boards first rather then to the group is also a better descision then one you could have made.  Even if you were endlessly trash talking this person (which you havnt been), none of us know who he is so it's not exactly a slur on his name which is something it could be construed as if it were brought up in the group.Pretty much every person in my group has DMed at one time or another.  Some are good at it, some are not, but all of them have been pretty receptive to player feedback and suggestions in fact, at the cost of looking like they are not fully prepared, they will most of the time just ask me about a rule, instead of taking the much longer time to look it up themselves and thus slowing the game down.But the qualities you described in your last post are the mark of a pigheaded person that is NOT receptive to helpful player feedback or suggestions that would help improve the gameplay environment for everyone.  Based on those and also the comments you made about your own knowledge of 3e in particular I would honestly say that it does sound like you might want to try your hand at DMing the group for a bit as you might be quite a bit better at it, because "Bob" seems to be unfamiliar with 3e rules, being that he is partial to other games.So to reitterate I do think that playing D&D is a two-way street and just as the players are responsible for being curteous and appreciative to the DM the DM is responsible for knowing the rules and making the players environment believable and fun.</blockquote>

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