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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7959349" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!True...just don't expect to be liked while you are on a team of jocks "forced" to have you on their team. Now, if everyone on the team are not jocks and just there to have fun...well, expect to be made fun of, but at least in a totally benign, "friendly jabs" type of way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Just wanted to point this out.Because it's incorrect.The responsibility of the DM is to run the game in an enjoying manner for everyone, including themselves. Running a game that they (the DM) is having fun running will almost always trickle down into the Players having fun. If not, the player(s) leave and new ones show up. Eventually a "regular group" will be formed where the DM running a game they want is exactly the thing the Players want. Thus, my contention that it is NOT the DM's responsibility to "make sure the players are having fun". The Players (and DM) "having fun" is not a responsibility! It is the goal of the game. Any DM that tries running a game for Players, where he/she isn't having fun...is doomed to fail. Thus, my stance that "...the first and foremost responsibility of the DM is to make sure the players are having fun." is incorrect.Just sayin'...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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