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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3438921" data-attributes="member: 13966">I voted half and half.&nbsp; I dunno if you mean for us to consider how it is when we DM, or just when we see others DMing.&nbsp; I'm generally more of a facillitator, only slightly adversarial (have to challenge the PCs sometimes after all, we're not playing My Little Pony the RPG).&nbsp; I've played under a few other DMs that mostly served as facillitators rather than adversaries.But I've also played under, and seen, a couple of older DMs (and one younger one) that are always adversarial.&nbsp; They've worked to be as vindictive and ruthless as possible; I've been mocked and laughed at as a DM killed my PC, more than once, when he was only doing the smart thing while other PCs went and triggered some stupid traps.&nbsp; That somehow dropped my PC into huge pits, either to be crushed by a falling block or impaled on spikes.&nbsp; And the same sort of thing happened when other PCs died.&nbsp; I've heard one of them respond to me or someone else that 'it's the DMs job to kill the PCs, and their job to try and stop him'.&nbsp; I didn't play in their games very long....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 3438921, member: 13966"] I voted half and half. I dunno if you mean for us to consider how it is when we DM, or just when we see others DMing. I'm generally more of a facillitator, only slightly adversarial (have to challenge the PCs sometimes after all, we're not playing My Little Pony the RPG). I've played under a few other DMs that mostly served as facillitators rather than adversaries. But I've also played under, and seen, a couple of older DMs (and one younger one) that are always adversarial. They've worked to be as vindictive and ruthless as possible; I've been mocked and laughed at as a DM killed my PC, more than once, when he was only doing the smart thing while other PCs went and triggered some stupid traps. That somehow dropped my PC into huge pits, either to be crushed by a falling block or impaled on spikes. And the same sort of thing happened when other PCs died. I've heard one of them respond to me or someone else that 'it's the DMs job to kill the PCs, and their job to try and stop him'. I didn't play in their games very long.... [/QUOTE]

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