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<blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5719856" data-attributes="member: 56189"><p>In my opinion, the DM runs his game, his way; if the players don't like that, then nobody is forcing them to keep turning up to the sessions.</p><p></p><p>A lot of people will cry foul at this and say, "But no, the DM has to CATER to the PLAYERS!" Yeah, whatever. The DM does a thousand times more work to make a game happen than does a player and then players do nothing but complain and whine about how they aren't getting what they want. How about, "Thanks DM for putting hours and hours and hours into your games for us so that we can all hang around and enjoy the results that are watered down to about 10 hours prep for one hour of gaming! You're awesome!"? Hmm? How about that?</p><p></p><p>People seem perversely focused on their own enjoyment and forget that the DM is a PLAYER as well. Only for the game to even happen, he's the only player that has to put in any actual effort and then at game time, he is STILL having to do fifty times more than any one single player. Do you think he gets fifty times the reward or benefit or fun out of games? It's easy to criticise a DM and yet I find the most vocal players are also the ones who either don't step up to the DM chair, or can't.</p><p></p><p>So instead of complaining, how about trying to adapt to HIS style instead of forcing him to adapt to yours?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kzach, post: 5719856, member: 56189"] In my opinion, the DM runs his game, his way; if the players don't like that, then nobody is forcing them to keep turning up to the sessions. A lot of people will cry foul at this and say, "But no, the DM has to CATER to the PLAYERS!" Yeah, whatever. The DM does a thousand times more work to make a game happen than does a player and then players do nothing but complain and whine about how they aren't getting what they want. How about, "Thanks DM for putting hours and hours and hours into your games for us so that we can all hang around and enjoy the results that are watered down to about 10 hours prep for one hour of gaming! You're awesome!"? Hmm? How about that? People seem perversely focused on their own enjoyment and forget that the DM is a PLAYER as well. Only for the game to even happen, he's the only player that has to put in any actual effort and then at game time, he is STILL having to do fifty times more than any one single player. Do you think he gets fifty times the reward or benefit or fun out of games? It's easy to criticise a DM and yet I find the most vocal players are also the ones who either don't step up to the DM chair, or can't. So instead of complaining, how about trying to adapt to HIS style instead of forcing him to adapt to yours? [/QUOTE]
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