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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9620157" data-attributes="member: 7026617">At least some of the time, yes.&nbsp; The alternative is that, in the end you're just running the game for yourself.Basically, there are X number of people at that table, and the GM is only one of them.&nbsp; Maybe you can argue the GM should weight his own enjoyment slightly heavier than any other individual player in games where he's doing more work (but note that; he's not in every game) but I don't see any ethical grounds for weighting it more than all of them.It doesn't seem an excessive ask to compromise there, and if it does I kind of don't know what to say.(It may be possible that there's no useful compromise because the GM and one or more players want fundamentally different things, and as others have said, that probably means they shouldn't be in the same game.&nbsp; But at the very least the GM ought to be honest about what's going on.&nbsp; Otherwise he's kidding himself and lying to everyone else).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9620157, member: 7026617"] At least some of the time, yes. The alternative is that, in the end you're just running the game for yourself. Basically, there are X number of people at that table, and the GM is only one of them. Maybe you can argue the GM should weight his own enjoyment slightly heavier than any other individual player in games where he's doing more work (but note that; he's not in every game) but I don't see any ethical grounds for weighting it more than[I] all[/I] of them. It doesn't seem an excessive ask to compromise there, and if it does I kind of don't know what to say. (It may be possible that there's no useful compromise because the GM and one or more players want fundamentally different things, and as others have said, that probably means they shouldn't be in the same game. But at the very least the GM ought to be [I]honest[/I] about what's going on. Otherwise he's kidding himself and lying to everyone else). [/QUOTE]

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