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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 2914620" data-attributes="member: 9045">Ah yes, Mr. Chekhov, who clued us in that to leave dangling plot threads dangling is bad form. <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=":)" />As for the rest of the thread, most of those things I also find aggrivating, except for the DM PC.  That used to bother me until I encountered a DM PC that really Was a PC that just happened to be played by the DM.  The character was a fully-functional member of the group, a core member of the group, who was RPed, developed fully 3-dimensionally, made mistakes, got himself messed up a few times, the whole 9 yards.(That character was Greg, one of the Iconic characters from Year of the Zombie, as played spot-on by the good Warlord Ralts.)Now, to actually Add something, a DM practice that makes me want to break out the pimp-slapping gloves is the "My world is the shiz-natz, you're just a PC trying to get a nut" attitude.  This guy is so hopped up on the uber-coolness of his world, his NPCs, and his dungeon that if you manage to mess something up, beat one of the NPCs, slice through the adventure because it just wasn't really that bad, or whatever...  the DM will treat you like you just sodomized his dog or something.  I've seen guys like this actually call the game and refuse to run any further because the group didn't play by what he expected it should have gone.It's so much worse when it's the only game in town, and he's the DM because no one else wants the job.</blockquote>

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