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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ongorth" data-source="post: 4493421" data-attributes="member: 50215">Game designers can do lots of things, but it isn't going to help when I don't listen to them. Seriously, for some god-awful reason people always pick me to DM everything.  In my own passive-agressive rebeliousness, I agree to do it, but refuse to put any work into it, forcing the players to handle all the heavy lifting.  And, apparently, they like it because they keep asking me to DM. It really doesn't matter how the book approaches the division of creative labor, people are going to chose the games they play based on the theme and mechanics of the game, not how the book dictates how they should behave socially.  Really, books shouldn't even address those kinds of issues?  Should they need to state things like "don't threated physical harm upon other players for taking actions in the game to which you are opposed?"  Whatever division the group likes, they'll do.</blockquote>