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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9553229" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Actually, it can be a problem. Because if any time I make a point based on the way I run the game, and I get told I'm a horrible terrible no good DM who is ruining the game for it... then that does kind of matter. It shapes the spaces we talk it, it shapes the conversations we can participate in. Heck, we cannot discuss scenarios and plans for dealing with this narratively, without people coming out and derailing the conversation by insisting that the very idea being proposed ruins the game. So yes, it does matter when talking to people who claim that I am ruining DND and leading us towards a future of boring pointless games, unlike the golden age they played in, that I can respond to them. If this was solely about what the people at my table liked I wouldn't be talking to you, I would be talking to them. Because you have no idea what they like. Heck, I just had a near emergency because in my one non-death game, I had a player who felt that the combat was so difficult they could only act in the most optimal way possible, with no room for RP. That was in part a miscommunication between us (playing via discord posts is hard) but I can't be working with a player on how my game is presenting incredibly difficult challenges while also being told that my game is baby's first RPG without any hint of challenge because I didn't murder a PC in the past few years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9553229, member: 6801228"] Actually, it can be a problem. Because if any time I make a point based on the way I run the game, and I get told I'm a horrible terrible no good DM who is ruining the game for it... then that does kind of matter. It shapes the spaces we talk it, it shapes the conversations we can participate in. Heck, we cannot discuss scenarios and plans for dealing with this narratively, without people coming out and derailing the conversation by insisting that the very idea being proposed ruins the game. So yes, it does matter when talking to people who claim that I am ruining DND and leading us towards a future of boring pointless games, unlike the golden age they played in, that I can respond to them. If this was solely about what the people at my table liked I wouldn't be talking to you, I would be talking to them. Because you have no idea what they like. Heck, I just had a near emergency because in my one non-death game, I had a player who felt that the combat was so difficult they could only act in the most optimal way possible, with no room for RP. That was in part a miscommunication between us (playing via discord posts is hard) but I can't be working with a player on how my game is presenting incredibly difficult challenges while also being told that my game is baby's first RPG without any hint of challenge because I didn't murder a PC in the past few years. [/QUOTE]

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