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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6512070" data-attributes="member: 29398">The way I see it, a DM signs on to DM; and while said DM might have some plans for the game she also needs to be fully and completely aware that no DM plan ever survives first contact with the players.The time for any such discussion is before the campaign ever begins.  Also, it's down to the DM to invite players in who might best suit the game she wants to run.  But once the puck is dropped whatever happens, happens...the DM might have wanted a story-heavy game going in - and got it, for maybe 6 sessions until the players collectively realized the DM's story idea just wasn't cutting it and they'd rather go sandbox and write their own.  And said player-driven story might start with Rezdar the Thief putting his shortsword through the neck of Ponce the Paladin as a red-flag announcement that instead of working for the local Baron the party's goal has instead become to take him down and replace him.For my current campaign I specifically invited players in who I knew (or thought) were capable of entertaining each other and - by extension - me.  I was then promptly broadsided over the first half-dozen sessions or so by just how crazy things ended up getting!  Roaring laughter at every turn; occasionally some adventuring happened as well, and things continued in much this vein for several years.  It wasn't entirely what I expected but in hindsight I wouldn't change a thing.Lan-"it's the DM's job to build a world; it's the characters' job to save it from some horrible fate while in the process making a complete mess and slaying countless sentient beings, sometimes including each other"-efan</blockquote>

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