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I'm an incompetent normal-magic DM--how do I fix it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 2952268" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>This is my second (and only other reply) in that other thread. I didn't intend for it to come off snarky or insulting, but the tone behind text sometimes gets warped in a forum. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Crutch" is indeed a loaded term, and DMs both in high and low magic campaigns can use crutches- but I also said in the other thread as well as this one that not ALL DMs of either style do that. In retrospect, it wasn't the best term to use, and I didn't use it again after the first time. I have run high-magic games in the past and had fun with them, it was just for us the enjoyment we got from high-powered play was dampened by the magical arms race that took place. I'd say the high-magic campaign was a success too considering the players still talk about some of the events in it and laugh about some of the over-the-top stuff, but they weren't as deeply motivated because they played Superman rather than Indiana Jones and have told me they had trouble getting in the high-powered character's mindset. Part of this is also due to me having mostly bad experiences with DMs running high-magic games, and mostly good experiences with DMs running low-magic games. I'm not upset at all, but I don't like being represented as making declarative statements of the truth when I use personal qualifiers for my view ("in my opinion", "I think", "in my experience", etc). True, I could have (and should have) stated my opinions in the other thread in a more diplomatic way, but I stand by gist of my comments. I guess we have to agree to disagree. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gothmog, post: 2952268, member: 317"] This is my second (and only other reply) in that other thread. I didn't intend for it to come off snarky or insulting, but the tone behind text sometimes gets warped in a forum. "Crutch" is indeed a loaded term, and DMs both in high and low magic campaigns can use crutches- but I also said in the other thread as well as this one that not ALL DMs of either style do that. In retrospect, it wasn't the best term to use, and I didn't use it again after the first time. I have run high-magic games in the past and had fun with them, it was just for us the enjoyment we got from high-powered play was dampened by the magical arms race that took place. I'd say the high-magic campaign was a success too considering the players still talk about some of the events in it and laugh about some of the over-the-top stuff, but they weren't as deeply motivated because they played Superman rather than Indiana Jones and have told me they had trouble getting in the high-powered character's mindset. Part of this is also due to me having mostly bad experiences with DMs running high-magic games, and mostly good experiences with DMs running low-magic games. I'm not upset at all, but I don't like being represented as making declarative statements of the truth when I use personal qualifiers for my view ("in my opinion", "I think", "in my experience", etc). True, I could have (and should have) stated my opinions in the other thread in a more diplomatic way, but I stand by gist of my comments. I guess we have to agree to disagree. ;) [/QUOTE]
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