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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9749489" data-attributes="member: 177">Tell me that you missed my mentioning how you provide mechanical support so that isn't an issue, without telling me that you missed it...How many individuals do you get to present to your players in a session that are getting more than a mere brushing of their surface?I've seen folks around here lament how one major trend in TV fiction these days - the slip to having a focused 10 or so episodes per season instead of the 22+ we used to get - leaves us without the "filler" episodes in which much of the character examination and development of our favorite shows often happened.Well, many modern GMs have much the same issue.  Back half a lifetime ago, I had groups playing 5+ hour sessions every week.  Now I'm down to more like three hours every couple of weeks - on the order of a quarter of the time at the table that I used to.  I don't have opportunity to present dozens of deeply conceptualized NPCs to demonstrate how varied people in the world actually are.  I need my players to carry that in their heads without my having to explicitly show it to them.But, I already mentioned all of that, too, albeit in shorter form, but it doesn't seem to have made an impact.Who is this "we"?  I am pretty sure that I have never expressed that, "the beautiful thing about D&D is that the GM has awesome, unlimited power..." or anything much similar.  I'm pretty sure I'm solidly and frequently expressed as being far more collaboratively-minded than that.  Sorry.Which I offer to my players on a regular basis.  Thank you very much.</blockquote>

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