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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 2407281" data-attributes="member: 7737">I am going to make a controversial statement: I think that ForceUser should stop running his campaign the way he has been running it.I think he should take a deep breath, read the first few sections of the DMG II, and remember that the goal of the game is to have fun -- not for the DM to force the players to behave a certain way. As someone once said, if you want total control over the characters, you're a novelist, not a DM.It is completely reasonable and possible for a DM to run a game that includes both in-depth roleplaying and massive amounts of beatdown. It is completely reasonable for a DM to swallow his self-created notions of what a cleric &quot;should be&quot; and realize that the D&amp;D classes are just words -- the cleric can represent a whole spectrum of characters, just as the wizard can represent anyone from Merlin to Gandalf to Elric to Harry Potter.I also think the other players should get off their high horses and stop thinking that their way of playing is superior to Bob's. It's not. It's just different. If you cannot get over the fact that different people prefer different playstyles, then maybe you shouldn't be playing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 2407281, member: 7737"] I am going to make a controversial statement: I think that ForceUser should stop running his campaign the way he has been running it. I think he should take a deep breath, read the first few sections of the DMG II, and remember that the goal of the game is to have fun -- [b]not[/b] for the DM to force the players to behave a certain way. As someone once said, if you want total control over the characters, you're a novelist, not a DM. It is completely reasonable and possible for a DM to run a game that includes both in-depth roleplaying and massive amounts of beatdown. It is completely reasonable for a DM to swallow his self-created notions of what a cleric "should be" and realize that the D&D classes are just words -- the cleric can represent a whole spectrum of characters, just as the wizard can represent anyone from Merlin to Gandalf to Elric to Harry Potter. I also think the other players should get off their high horses and stop thinking that their way of playing is superior to Bob's. It's not. It's just different. If you cannot get over the fact that different people prefer different playstyles, then maybe you shouldn't be playing. [/QUOTE]

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