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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 2912113" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>If you don't like the way the DM drives, then you take the wheel if so many things DM's do annoy ya. :\ </p><p></p><p>I never understood why players will nit-pick so many little details about how a guy DM's. Half of the stuff you're complaining about is typical events that the majority of people <em>think</em> players would enjoy. Probably because it works good in a book or movie. It just doesn't always come out that "cool" when you try to do it in D&D. </p><p></p><p>A DM who is being a prick while DM'ing just because he's a stupid human being is one thing, but the stuff you guys are bringing up sounds like issues that are pretty common for DM's to do when playing D&D isn't their sole purpose in life...it's their hobby.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, I don't think anyone has the right to criticize a DM for just trying to entertain people. Player's who do that are the same players that DM's will criticize as being annoying players. </p><p></p><p>I DM 99% of the time and there are <strong>far</strong> more annoying "shticks" that players do than what DM's do. And the bad thing is that the players just show up for the game while the DM's put tons of work into the game beforehand. This thread comes off like players thinking being DM'ed is an obligation rather than a privilege. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 2912113, member: 18701"] If you don't like the way the DM drives, then you take the wheel if so many things DM's do annoy ya. :\ I never understood why players will nit-pick so many little details about how a guy DM's. Half of the stuff you're complaining about is typical events that the majority of people [i]think[/i] players would enjoy. Probably because it works good in a book or movie. It just doesn't always come out that "cool" when you try to do it in D&D. A DM who is being a prick while DM'ing just because he's a stupid human being is one thing, but the stuff you guys are bringing up sounds like issues that are pretty common for DM's to do when playing D&D isn't their sole purpose in life...it's their hobby. Honestly, I don't think anyone has the right to criticize a DM for just trying to entertain people. Player's who do that are the same players that DM's will criticize as being annoying players. I DM 99% of the time and there are [b]far[/b] more annoying "shticks" that players do than what DM's do. And the bad thing is that the players just show up for the game while the DM's put tons of work into the game beforehand. This thread comes off like players thinking being DM'ed is an obligation rather than a privilege. :confused: [/QUOTE]
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