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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2121323" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Dude, you're getting way too defensive here. If your group works then that's fine. If your DM has a thick enough skin that he doesn't mind the "hazing" that's fine too.</p><p></p><p>But just because things work that way in your group doesn't mean that it works that way in most others or even a few others. You started this thread basically saying, "When our DM ran the game in a way that we didn't like, we screwed the whole thing up and he became a better DM because of it."</p><p></p><p>That's dandy and all but a lot of other people posting in this thread would rather not operate that way. Many would deem it disrespectful and I think most would consider it to be a waste of time. Nobody is saying that you should have abandoned the DM and nobody is saying that you shouldn't help him try and improve his game. I think we're mostly just saying that if you've got a problem with how somebody runs the game then the most efficient way of addressing it is to halt the game and state your problems, discuss them, work out a solution and then take the necessary actions. The whole, "let's jerk him around a bit to show him the error of his ways" routine is considered by many in this thread to be unnecessary.</p><p></p><p>As such, the responses that you've gotten have largely been along the lines of "if my players treated me that way then one of us would be headed toward the door". If you can't handle those sorts of responses then perhaps you aren't as thick skinned as you expect your DM to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 2121323, member: 99"] Dude, you're getting way too defensive here. If your group works then that's fine. If your DM has a thick enough skin that he doesn't mind the "hazing" that's fine too. But just because things work that way in your group doesn't mean that it works that way in most others or even a few others. You started this thread basically saying, "When our DM ran the game in a way that we didn't like, we screwed the whole thing up and he became a better DM because of it." That's dandy and all but a lot of other people posting in this thread would rather not operate that way. Many would deem it disrespectful and I think most would consider it to be a waste of time. Nobody is saying that you should have abandoned the DM and nobody is saying that you shouldn't help him try and improve his game. I think we're mostly just saying that if you've got a problem with how somebody runs the game then the most efficient way of addressing it is to halt the game and state your problems, discuss them, work out a solution and then take the necessary actions. The whole, "let's jerk him around a bit to show him the error of his ways" routine is considered by many in this thread to be unnecessary. As such, the responses that you've gotten have largely been along the lines of "if my players treated me that way then one of us would be headed toward the door". If you can't handle those sorts of responses then perhaps you aren't as thick skinned as you expect your DM to be. [/QUOTE]
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