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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9620446" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Note I have primarily been in this discussion because there's a common claim you see when suggesting what a given&nbsp; GM is doing that &quot;My players are all fine with it&quot;.&nbsp; This is a--convenient--claim that when pressed on in real life I've found more than once was not really true; it was the GM was reading compliance as &quot;fine with it&quot; because he'd passively discouraged complaints.I'm primarily suggesting that if people are reading lack of complaint as enthusiasm, they're reaching well past their available data, and bluntly, should not be doing that.&nbsp; &quot;Its the way I want to run the game and I don't see signs there's much pushback&quot; is, at least honest, where claiming support from lack of pushback is--something else.In other words, I'm far less interested in the individual cases than how GMs are presenting their relationship with their gaming group and the latter's approval of what they do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9620446, member: 7026617"] Note I have primarily been in this discussion because there's a common claim you see when suggesting what a given GM is doing that "My players are all fine with it". This is a--convenient--claim that when pressed on in real life I've found more than once was not really true; it was the GM was reading compliance as "fine with it" because he'd passively discouraged complaints. I'm primarily suggesting that if people are reading lack of complaint as enthusiasm, they're reaching well past their available data, and bluntly, should not be doing that. "Its the way I want to run the game and I don't see signs there's much pushback" is, at least honest, where claiming support from lack of pushback is--something else. In other words, I'm far less interested in the individual cases than how GMs are presenting their relationship with their gaming group and the latter's approval of what they do. [/QUOTE]

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