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<blockquote data-quote="Dragon Vindaloo" data-source="post: 3551063" data-attributes="member: 46821"><p>I’ve seen this kind of thing before; I have been through this kinda frustration myself as a DM. </p><p></p><p>In the end I decided it can’t really be helped and it’s us DM’s that have to chill out and realise <em>we</em> are the biggest geeks, <em>we</em> are the ones who are most passionate about this game (it’s a ton of hobbies rolled into one for us and takes up a lot of our thoughts and time) and therefore its always going to cause some frustration when others don’t seem to care as much about it as we do. </p><p></p><p>To most players it’s just a game (a really fun and social game but still just a game) in which they get to hang out with their buddies and have a bit of fun and excitement. If they were as passionate about it as us they would want to DM! So yeah, just take a step back, don’t fret and chill out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Thats what I did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dragon Vindaloo, post: 3551063, member: 46821"] I’ve seen this kind of thing before; I have been through this kinda frustration myself as a DM. In the end I decided it can’t really be helped and it’s us DM’s that have to chill out and realise [i]we[/i] are the biggest geeks, [i]we[/i] are the ones who are most passionate about this game (it’s a ton of hobbies rolled into one for us and takes up a lot of our thoughts and time) and therefore its always going to cause some frustration when others don’t seem to care as much about it as we do. To most players it’s just a game (a really fun and social game but still just a game) in which they get to hang out with their buddies and have a bit of fun and excitement. If they were as passionate about it as us they would want to DM! So yeah, just take a step back, don’t fret and chill out. :) Thats what I did. [/QUOTE]
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