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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9619199">I don't read acceptance as agreement, and I don't think there is a point in being a jerk about any of this when there is disagreement. But there is only so much one can do to decipher what a person silently not enjoying a campaign is thinking. All for having conversations, all for looking for cues. But I also don't want to feel like this is a daycare or something where the GM is constantly supposed to be checking in to make sure everyone is 100% happy with everything all the time. Maybe it is just my personality, but if I am at a table and not enjoying myself, I will even get up in the middle of a session and excuse myself politely (especially if there something that makes me physically uncomfortable like smoking for example). And if a player tells me they don't like something, I absolutely don't take offenses and won't try to convince them. I have lots of gamer friends who like some things I like but not others. For instance I have one friend who can't stand rules light games, and on the occasions when he plays rules light I am running I appreciate his presence but don't expect it. I have another who just can't stand D&D. I love D&D and would like to run it more, but most of my players aren't really into it. And one player would just tell me if I wanted to run it, thanks but I am just done playing D&D. Which is totally fine. Game groups get more dysfunctional when people make accommodations they aren't really willing to make, or when they pretend nothing is a problem, when it is. I will also say I tend to seek out gamers that are all pretty relaxed about things. We'll kind of play anything and by any style, and just adjust to the GM and their preferred system. And if we are really not interested, we'll sit out a game or campaign. If people are going to bring drama to the table over this kind of stuff, they are gamers I would rather not game with</blockquote>

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