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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9504092" data-attributes="member: 87792">As I say I have regularly run and played at open tables. They are not a significant problem in my experience and the ones I have seen that are reactions to toxic DMing (or young teenagers).That group fun isn't the goal and that all powerful DMs are a good thing.Find? I've regularly managed to make good players and to encourage good play. Give me a table full of five interested newbies (again who aren't young teenagers) and I'd expect to get one potential new DM and 2-3 other good players out of it with the other 1-2 realising it isn't for them but not being toxic players unless they were toxic people.I'm trying to think of any of the toxic players I've had the misfortune of playing with who weren't veteran players.And no I don't consider myself some sort of DMing paragon.But what I'm saying isn't that. It's "Every time I've become aware of this problem in real life it is as a reaction to specific types of toxic DMing practices causing it. Therefore to fix the problem we need to fix the DMing."And believe it or not the way you DM is something you do have control over.Google tells me I'm wrong. That it was RPGSite nonsense from 2006 that I became aware of thanks to edition warriors and that is an incredibly niche term with almost no traction. It's certainly an unwelcome blast from the past.</blockquote>