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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8607837" data-attributes="member: 7023840">When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.Look, it seems like the majority of your comments devolve into some form of &quot;DMs suck and are terrible and try to kill players and I hate DMs.&quot; Which, now that you've identified it's not a shtick ... well, okay?But you do understand that you preferred way of playing isn't the only one? And that the difficulties have been dialed up and down since the very beginning of the game?Here is a question from the very first Sage advice (Dragon Magazine #31, November 1979):In GODS, DEMI-GODS AND HEROES it says that a forty-plus level character is ridiculous. In our game we have two characters that are at one thousand-plus level. This happened in “Armageddon,” a conflict between the gods and the characters. Of course, the characters won. What do you think about that?So, yeah. From the beginning, some people played gritty. Some people played wish fulfillment. Some people played in-between. So long as everyone is having fun, no problem.But blaming everything on DMs is just as tiresome as blaming everything on players. The only truism is that it's not DMs, nor players, that suck,Just bards, and the people that play them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8607837, member: 7023840"] When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Look, it seems like the majority of your comments devolve into some form of "DMs suck and are terrible and try to kill players and I hate DMs." Which, now that you've identified it's not a shtick ... well, okay? But you do understand that you preferred way of playing isn't the only one? And that the difficulties have been dialed up and down since the very beginning of the game? Here is a question from the [I]very first [/I]Sage advice (Dragon Magazine #31, November 1979): [I]In GODS, DEMI-GODS AND HEROES it says that a forty-plus level character is ridiculous. In our game we have two characters that are at one thousand-plus level. This happened in “Armageddon,” a conflict between the gods and the characters. Of course, the characters won. What do you think about that?[/I] So, yeah. From the beginning, some people played gritty. Some people played wish fulfillment. Some people played in-between. So long as everyone is having fun, no problem. But blaming everything on DMs is just as tiresome as blaming everything on players. The only truism is that it's not DMs, nor players, that suck, Just bards, and the people that play them. [/QUOTE]

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