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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8608540" data-attributes="member: 6785785">My comment was that everyone is responsible for the quality of the game. I understand why we may call something "Mike's Ravenloft campaign" and so on, but everyone should be an active participant. Everyone contributes to how good or bad a game may be. In my opinion, that doesn't change if I as a player am only in charge of my character and nothing else. There's nothing wrong with approaching the role of player with a different mindset than one would that of GM. But, there's no reason that there can only be one way to divvy up the game's authority. There are many ways we can divide the authority between GM and players.D&D traditionally favors the GM in most instances, but not all. There's no reason that people can't shift that authority a bit. There are certainly things you can do to grant the players a bit more authority in the fiction beyond what their declared actions allow. I don't think you can move that too much without throwing things off, but you can do it. This isn't about being seen as a GM by other players. Or at least, that's not what I've been talking about.</blockquote>