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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 1420638" data-attributes="member: 13732">I play in 1 regular, or weekly game, another that would like to be regular and a third which will probably be weekly or twice a month is trying to start up.The weekly game is people I know only through gaming.  The third started as gaming but now they are friends, which leaves the middle group.The middle group are friends and gamers.  Unfortunately, a third of the group, (meaning 1 person and by default her boyfriend), is not interested in anything that isn't fantasy d20.  She doesn't want to learn anything else.So, this means we are stuck playing 3E, which I don't mind that much.  But it does lead to the next problem, the current story arch is character driven, that is, certain characters in the group have taken it upon themselves to perform a deed and the DM is happy to oblige.  Unfortunately, I couldn't care less about this crusade and thus I have sat through more than one session asking the DM, "can I run a bad guy in this fight?"It seems to me talking to the DM in this case is moot because I've sat through enough boring, to me, events that we should only have to deal with this once more.What Eric said about not confronting a DM about a game going off in what you think is the wrong direction is a good question.  In the past I've avoided confrontation, and when things get crappy I simmer and sit through it hoping it'll go away.  Sometimes it does, but more likely I get more annoyed.The other two groups are different.  The DM in the weekly game constantly wonders if we are having fun and can pick up on your negative vibes and will ask you about it.  The other group, which wants to start a Mage storyteller game, is trying to figure out what we want from the game still.</blockquote>

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