Satyrn
First Post
I think you need to focus the conversation on the inarguable fact that you are not having fun.Thanks. I've always enjoyed the idea of more creative combat such as choosing to use the environment to your advantage instead of always using skills. Just using skills is fine but sometimes it's fun to get creative.
Do you have any suggestions how I could start that conversation? I'm scared they'll think I'm just complaining about them being "too good" at what they do. Last time I tried to bring up, they told me there was nothing wrong with them being "good at what they're supposed to do" so I've been worried my concerns are baseless.
Tell them why in as nonjudgemental a way as you can manage, and ask them for ideas on what changes y'all can make to help you get the fun you're looking for, with the absolute declaration that something has to change.
And you might have to decide that you can't have fun DMing with them, and so the solution might have to be to let someone else take over and roll up a character of your own.
But if that does happen, you might be able to do your DMing online with a different group. [MENTION=97077]iserith[/MENTION] does a lot of DMing online, for example, and it works well for him.