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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 7266926" data-attributes="member: 5038">Hygiene issues and would I want to hangout with these people outside of gaming aside, some of mine for D&D, specifically,1. The DM allowing anything and everything official, UA and/or third party, because "I will fit in".2. Cooperative world building3. The DM not taking the time to build a setting to present to the players. If you can't know your deities, the races of the world, the nations and their cultures,  major organizations and  NPCs that players might know about based on their  country/culture or origin, which classes/subclasses and which are culturally appropriate/inappropriate, etc. I don't have time.  I want to know about your setting so I can decide if it is one that interests me.4. The DM not having their house rules and setting rules pre-defined.  Yes, stuff may come up in play that needs to be addressed, but I want to see your standard house rules and any special setting rules printed up front so I can decide if they are house rules that I would enjoy. I don't want to have them fed to me as the game goes on.5. Running "canned" adventures or adventure paths.  6. A game set in Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, or a game with a lot of dimensional travel.  I prefer a game that is more Tolkien or Sword and Sorcery but I also like  Dark Sun (original boxed set), Ravenloft (original boxed set), Al Qadim, and Asian settings.7. The focus is on butt-kicking (i.e. combat): I have no interest in a game that is kick down the door and kill stuff  and the players are optimized for combat with  little no interest outside of combat or interacting with NPCs and the rest of the world.8. Long drawn out battles that take up half the session or more (actually anything more than 15 minutes is generally to much).9. There is a heavy focus on power gaming (being powerful or the accumulation of levels to gain more power). This includes a heavy emphasis on optimizing for character power.10. Basing the game or characters around superhero comics (why are we not just playing something else such as Icons, Mutants and Masterminds, Champions, Marvel Heroic, BASH? There are so many good superhero games out there)?11. Basing the game around most anime. A game inspired around Record Of the Lodoss War might be fine.  But for many others, I am thinking, why not Mutants and Masterminds 2e Mecha and Manga, Big Eyes Small Mouth, or OVA?12. Evil PCs13. Everyone reaching for Complete Book of Humanoids (2e), Savage Species (3e), or  Volo's Guide to monsters (5e). Available non-human PC races, in my opinion, should be carefully thought out by the DM as part of the world building stage.14. Drow, Elan, Shadar-Kai, Dragonborn, Tieflings and many other races as PCs. This just is isn't the fantasy that interests me. On the other hand, I am fine with Hengoyaki, Yuan Ti PCs in an Asian style fantasy.  I am fine with gnoll PCs in an Egyptian themed setting.15. Spiked chains, sunrods, tanglefoot bags, etc.16. Puzzles based on player skill. They strike me as metagamey17. Running the game as PCs as player avatars rather than as characters18.Player knowledge as opposed to "character" knowledge (based upon the setting and the character's own culture, background, class, past experience).19. Edit: Dm Favoritism20 Edit: DM "bribery" for XP21 Edit:  Leveling to fast22 Edit: Playing above level 10-12 for WOTC D&D.</blockquote>

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