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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3179332" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have a very full life and I don't have a lot of time for gaming so when I game I am there to play not watch the NPCs play. I will give you an example of what I mean.In a Shadowrun game we had searched for a lost team member and when we found him he was in  somekind of weird statsis in his lodge we started reserching how to save him it was a big plot point and took several sessions so when the day came to final resuce him I was psyched.But the DM brought in some powerful sun shamams who ended up doing everything as we sat there and just watched. We didn't roll dice we didn't do anything but listen to the DM tell us what these uber shamans did. I was not the only player setting there at the table really pissed. If I wanted to just listen to a plot unfold I could have gone to the movies. I play to be part of the action. I don't expect to always be on "stage" every second I have spent sessions dead, knocked out, possessed and those I didn't mind. I don't mind listening to other characters doing things even NPCs but in that encounter I described it was blantly obivious that the DM never intend to have any of us actually do anything it was bad DMing and yeah I resented.As for high level characters you have to be careful that they don't take away from the other players. I was in one game where the DM brought in a seventh level rogue to give us info help us get into a keep and basically help out in the fight. The problem was that our rogue was only second level so when it came time to try and open up the treasure chests the halfling just did so much better at everything that the player felt redunant and later told me that he flet like why was he even there.There is a reason why The DMG suggest that there not be more than a two level difference in character levels.</blockquote>

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