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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7927805" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>If you don't want to contribute to the game, why are you here? If all you want to do is passively lap up whatever the DM is serving, passively sitting there, why are you playing an RPG? You can get a FAR better experience in a video game. It's objectively bad because as we see in this thread, passive players dominate the hobby and the notion of actually having to contribute more than being a warm blooded dice bot is horrific. I'm just so sick and tired of passive players who think that my function, as DM, is to provide for their entertainment. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, how about ANY. How about doing more than just showing up, session after session, passively consuming whatever the DM has brought that week, expecting the DM to spend 4 hours a week to provide entertainment for the group, all the while contributing nothing more than a warm seat and a waft of Cheetos.</p><p></p><p>Take notes. Keep a wiki. Track what's going on session to session. Provide material for the DM. Step up with goals, family, ties, enemies, and whatever else for the DM. </p><p></p><p>IOW, stop being a passive consumer.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup, and that's the problem right there. The notion that there is a "most accurate account". The expectation that the DM is the one to do all the work introducing stuff. Why aren't you introducing things? Why aren't you triggering actions? Why aren't you the one driving the action in the game? The whole point of playing an RPG is the freedom to choose. Yet, if all you want to choose is whatever the DM is placing in front of you, you're far better served playing a video game than an RPG. </p><p></p><p>You have the freedom to do virtually anything in an RPG. Yet, most players figure that it's far better to passively consume the game and expect the DM to provide everything. It's such a poison in the hobby. So much wasted effort.</p><p></p><p>Look, I'm not saying that the DM should do nothing. Of course not. That was the misinterpretation I pointed to earlier. But, I am saying that good players get off their asses and actually contribute and lift some of the work load off the DM. I have very little patience anymore for passive consumer players. They just suck all the air out of the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7927805, member: 22779"] If you don't want to contribute to the game, why are you here? If all you want to do is passively lap up whatever the DM is serving, passively sitting there, why are you playing an RPG? You can get a FAR better experience in a video game. It's objectively bad because as we see in this thread, passive players dominate the hobby and the notion of actually having to contribute more than being a warm blooded dice bot is horrific. I'm just so sick and tired of passive players who think that my function, as DM, is to provide for their entertainment. Well, how about ANY. How about doing more than just showing up, session after session, passively consuming whatever the DM has brought that week, expecting the DM to spend 4 hours a week to provide entertainment for the group, all the while contributing nothing more than a warm seat and a waft of Cheetos. Take notes. Keep a wiki. Track what's going on session to session. Provide material for the DM. Step up with goals, family, ties, enemies, and whatever else for the DM. IOW, stop being a passive consumer. Yup, and that's the problem right there. The notion that there is a "most accurate account". The expectation that the DM is the one to do all the work introducing stuff. Why aren't you introducing things? Why aren't you triggering actions? Why aren't you the one driving the action in the game? The whole point of playing an RPG is the freedom to choose. Yet, if all you want to choose is whatever the DM is placing in front of you, you're far better served playing a video game than an RPG. You have the freedom to do virtually anything in an RPG. Yet, most players figure that it's far better to passively consume the game and expect the DM to provide everything. It's such a poison in the hobby. So much wasted effort. Look, I'm not saying that the DM should do nothing. Of course not. That was the misinterpretation I pointed to earlier. But, I am saying that good players get off their asses and actually contribute and lift some of the work load off the DM. I have very little patience anymore for passive consumer players. They just suck all the air out of the game. [/QUOTE]
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