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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 8106348" data-attributes="member: 6801286">Our last session was cancelled. Complaints regarding one of our campaigns had been voiced on our Discord channel, after our DM refused to discuss it directly with us last week. Perhaps at that moment he was not in the right mind space for something to confrontational, so instead he send us a document with his thoughts, before we had a time to voice ours. This approach did not go over well. But, voice our complaints we did. Last sunday we talked it over. Not all of our issues with the campaign were directly aimed at the DM, although still a lot of them were.Our biggest complaints were the railroading, the slowness of the sessions, and how our DM was prone to handing us a list of possible actions, instead of letting us think for ourselves. Being a DM myself, I try to be as constructive and positive as possible. I understand that the game can demand a lot of prep work, and it should never feel like work. I would be okay with playing less often, if this would improve the quality of the sessions. But we all have some doubts whether our DM really took our complaints to heart. He seemed more inclined to deflect, rather than listen. This has raised worries for the future of this particular campaign. In the end, we are all a group of friends who like playing D&D together. And we'd like to continue doing that. But lately the campaign has become a bit of a slog, and it feels as if neither the DM nor the players' hearts are into it.It puzzles me a bit. I've never had any issues like this with any of my own campaigns. But it seems that with this particular DM, discussions like this come up every few months or so. Now some players feel like quiting this campaign entirely, which would be a shame. But honestly, if we all have doubts regarding whether any of this will improve in future sessions, then perhaps putting a stop to it is the best thing to do.I'm curious to hear if others have been in similar situations like this...</blockquote>

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