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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 2972941" data-attributes="member: 30709">When I first read this thread, it just looked like a fussy player.  BUt when you say he's the usual DM, that changes things.I'm the default DM in my group, so when I do get to play, I can sometimes end up speaking a lot more than the other players because i'm still in the "I@m a GM and everyone will listen to me" mindset.  <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=":-)" />  There are game types and entire game systems I might not be keen on, but if the rest of the group wanted to play it, I'd etiher grin and bear it or bow out.  I think throwing your weight around about how stupid it is until the players cancel the game, and then not being able to come up with anything better yourself, isn't very mature.Hell, I'm forever telling my players that they're welcome to run one-offs or mini campaigns with us if they wanna try out GMing, and a couple have said tehy've got ideas theyd like tyo try out in the future.  So what if I'm not a big Firefly fan and one guy wants to run a game set in the Firefly world?  It would be his first shot at GMing and I think it's only fair to try to help him out and see what he's like.  I certianly think that spitting the dummy out and bawling over a Good aligned Gnoll or a clutch of dragons without a parent (despite the fac thre MM says Gnolls are usually evil and epxlicitly states dragons sometimes abandon clutches of eggs) is a major over-reaction, and to keep bending to his will when everyone else is cool is only going to make things worse. I'm interested to hear how talking to him goes.  If he can't keep quiet and let the other guys run in peace, then he needs to find a new game.  Ask him how he'd feel if you all started querying thing sduring his game and left disgusted over little stuff, crashing the game as you did so?  What if you threw a wobbly becuase you though Universal Solvent was illogical because, if it melts everything, how do you store it?  (A question my players kept asking despite getting in-game answers, which was starting to really grate. ;-) )</blockquote>

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