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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3630524" data-attributes="member: 2020">Then there is the Intimidated DM.    The players have dictated very throughly to the Intimidated DM exactly how he is going to give them a free lunch.  Because if they don't have a free lunch, they will make lunch of said DM.  The DM accommodates the players very nicely, not wishing to be roasted over a slow fire and served up well done, and gives them their free lunch.  But in D&D, free lunches are boring.  Or rapidly become so.  So the players become frustrated because they are not having fun.  Since the frustrated, bored, idle players cannot vent their anger on the DM, who knew to keep his head down, they vent it on each other.    Apparently, arguing over the rules is a fine way of venting anger.  It's so fine a way that it eventually pulls everyone else into the fray, and then energy aplenty and to spare is thrown into the battle royale.  (Except those players who refuse to get involved, obviously.)  This is a lot of fun for everyone, of course.  It is so fun that it breaks up the game, ruins the evening, wastes everyone's time, and causes a headache no amount of painkillers will even slow down.  Sometimes, the poor DM gets caught despite all his efforts, and then he is flayed alive by the frustrated players.  Needless to say, this improves his DMing skills and his desire to be fair and reasonable to the party.  It is such an inspiration that the DM might decide to do something that ... will start another argument and/or fight even bigger than the last one.  I say, busy minds are happy minds.  And how better to keep the players busy mentally than to challenge them, and occupy them with roleplaying, and with puzzles, and with the thrill of the chase?</blockquote>

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