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<blockquote data-quote="DinoInDisguise" data-source="post: 9488254" data-attributes="member: 7045806">I don't disagree. No one would celebrate their inclusion. And it's far from clear that the section would even be effective.But I think the lack of these skills is a far larger problem in the community than many of the issues people rave about putting in the DMG. And at the moment, we have a guide for dungeon masters that doesn't even try to address the largest issue facing those very dungeon masters.I agree with almost everything said by others on this topic. But we have multiple subreddits, numerous threads on these forums, and countless other accounts of issues caused by the lack of these skills. And not only are we not addressing the issues, the community doesn't even talk about them.So I am happy if my comment just inspires people to think about the topic. Because this is likely the biggest issue facing the new DMs. As they will try DMing and, almost immediately, run into uncomfortable situations and problems because they lack the skills necessary to deal with the social dynamics of a group. And than we will all hear about it in a rant on social media about player toxicity and it will be a coin flip whether that person ever DMs again. We've seen this thousands of times.Hopefully some way is figured out to address these issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DinoInDisguise, post: 9488254, member: 7045806"] I don't disagree. No one would celebrate their inclusion. And it's far from clear that the section would even be effective. But I think the lack of these skills is a far larger problem in the community than many of the issues people rave about putting in the DMG. And at the moment, we have a guide for dungeon masters that doesn't even try to address the largest issue facing those very dungeon masters. I agree with almost everything said by others on this topic. But we have multiple subreddits, numerous threads on these forums, and countless other accounts of issues caused by the lack of these skills. And not only are we not addressing the issues, the community doesn't even talk about them. So I am happy if my comment just inspires people to think about the topic. Because this is likely the biggest issue facing the new DMs. As they will try DMing and, almost immediately, run into uncomfortable situations and problems because they lack the skills necessary to deal with the social dynamics of a group. And than we will all hear about it in a rant on social media about player toxicity and it will be a coin flip whether that person ever DMs again. We've seen this thousands of times. Hopefully some way is figured out to address these issues. [/QUOTE]

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