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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vegepygmy" data-source="post: 4649139" data-attributes="member: 40109">You're right.  We can improve the analogy by changing the sweaters from something Grandma buys for you to something she creates for you (just like a DM creates a campaign). So now we have Grandma, who spent hours crocheting (or whatever it is you do to make a sweater) a sweater for you, and she's proud of her work, and it makes her heart swell with pride to think of you wearing this thing she made just for you...and you politely communicate to her that you'd prefer a nice pair of pants. I don't know about you, but that's not how I roll.  And I can guarantee that if I had ever done something like that to my Grandma in front of my Dad, he'd have taken me outside and politely drop-kicked me into the neighbor's yard. <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=":)" /> I don't disagree with any of that.  The key is...you have that discussion before you sit down to play, and you either accept whatever terms the DM is willing to offer or you reject them.  You don't accept the invitation to play and then whine about how you'd rather play a different kind of game. Just like when you're invited to a backyard barbecue, it's fine to say: "No, thanks.  I'm more of a gourmet food kind of guy."  But it's not okay to accept the invitation, show up at the barbecue, and then talk about how much you prefer gourmet food to what's being served.</blockquote>

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