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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameOgre" data-source="post: 6255975" data-attributes="member: 57914">I have found that trying to run a game not suited to your style of DMing is a bad idea. The players are often after parts of the game that you are trying to cut out! You are much better off running a game that appeals to you.I understand the pressure of wanting to please your players with a game they want to play but in the long run it's easier to just swallow it down and run what you find fun.Cutting all the super crunchy bits out of pathfinder is defeating the very reasons why so many love the game.I was running a Pathfinder game and trying to enjoy it even though it didn't appeal to me as a DM until I just got so aggravated I told them I wasn't going to do it anymore. Then one of my players totally surprised me and said he would run it! I got to actually PLAY!Pathfinder ROCKS as a player(well,any rpg is fun if you don't ever get to play much) and I'm having a blast! Also now that the shoe is on the other foot I'm seeing the new DM struggle with so many of the things I disliked about it from the other side of the screen. I don't give him a hard time about it though.I just try and help out with anything I can. Even when my grapple fighter should have thrown his boss in the dirt but instead the DM said"I don't think it should work like that so it doesn't" and my character got killed off in the battle I just smiled and told em to pass me a character sheet and made another character.It really is amazing to get to play! Those people pushing pathfinder on you need to step up and run the game and let YOU have a turn enjoying the thrill of adventure.Sometimes it's not so easy to let go of the DM screen especially after years of running games and the head rush that comes with being known as a kick ass DM but I think in the long run a DM who plays as a player under other DM's ends up better for it.</blockquote>

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