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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8160841" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, the answer to the first question is &quot;Because its the only practical game in town, and everyone would rather play than not.&quot;&nbsp; That's why I'm willing to accept a majority vote rather than full consensus, because I don't really expect to get that about, well, anything.I do agree that if a group can never reach reasonable consensus, or one or two people are always being shut-out there's some dysfunction there, but I'm not sure its any worse than the dysfunction of a group with a GM who feels the need to regularly overrule the group on things.(One of the reasons I'm not completely in the &quot;let the group decide&quot; camp is that often the group as a whole just doesn't care, or some members don't care much, and as such is vulnerable to the more dominant personalities, who may well not really have the interests of the group as a whole in mind. But if I'm having to overrule half or more of my group on something when they actively want it, I think I'm doing something wrong).I think you've probably been very fortunate in getting people who are good at getting on the same page.&nbsp; That's far, far from universal.&nbsp; Sometimes people just have radically different views of a situation, and sometimes its just an expectation clash.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8160841, member: 7026617"] Well, the answer to the first question is "Because its the only practical game in town, and everyone would rather play than not." That's why I'm willing to accept a majority vote rather than full consensus, because I don't really expect to get that about, well, anything. I do agree that if a group can never reach reasonable consensus, or one or two people are always being shut-out there's some dysfunction there, but I'm not sure its any worse than the dysfunction of a group with a GM who feels the need to regularly overrule the group on things. (One of the reasons I'm not [I]completely[/I] in the "let the group decide" camp is that often [I]the group as a whole just doesn't care[/I], or some members don't care much, and as such is vulnerable to the more dominant personalities, who may well not really have the interests of the group as a whole in mind. But if I'm having to overrule half or more of my group on something when they actively want it, I think I'm doing something wrong). I think you've probably been very fortunate in getting people who are good at getting on the same page. That's far, far from universal. Sometimes people just have radically different views of a situation, and sometimes its just an expectation clash. [/QUOTE]

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