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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4491224" data-attributes="member: 22779">Was recently listening to a podcast (<a href="http://cdn2.libsyn.com/feartheboot/feartheboot_0117.mp3?nvb=20081002014634&nva=20081003014634&t=091ec64746a4df53b7c78" target="_blank">Fear the Boot Ep 117</a>) and they had an interesting point.  Well, interesting to me anyway.In the podcast, they were saying that because the DM does all this work, and is responsible for the table and the game and everyone's enjoyment, the DM's are producers and the players are consumers.  In other words, and I'm roughly quoting here, the DM prepares the banquet, serves the food and then cleans up the mess afterward.  Is this how you view it?  I don't.  My players, and all of the players I consider to be good players that I've played with, contribute a great deal to every facet of the campaign and the game.  Now, bad players, that's a different story altogether and I'm not talking about that because, well, I don't play with bad players.  But, with good players, I feel it's incumbent on everyone to make sure that the table is having a good time.  It's incumbent on everyone to keep the campaign going.  I don't view the DM in quite the same way as its being portrayed here.Yes, the DM is doing more work than everyone else.  Sure.  I don't deny that.  I'm actually typing this because I'm procrastinating getting some prep work done <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />, but, I don't buy into this very heirarchical structure of DM and players.  (Or GM or Storyteller or whatever you want to call the person)What do you think?</blockquote>

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