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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5193144" data-attributes="member: 3424">I look at it from this perspective: why is it especially important for the DM to ensure that people have fun?Well, first off, there's that whole "great power, great responsibility" mantra that everyone keeps talking about and presumably believes in.Secondly, and perhaps more critically, DMs often have so many objectives for their games that they lose sight of the fact that "fun" should be one of the more important ones, if not the most important one. All too often, DMs excuse the unfun events in their game with simple, trite, cop-outs such as "That's how the dice came up," or "That's how the NPC would have reacted," or "That's what would have logically happened." To me, that's like a player saying, "I was just roleplaying my character." Come on, now. You're the DM. Unless you're running a sandbox game (and in some cases, even if you're running a sandbox game), you control the setup of the world, what's happening in the world, the nature of the challenges that the players face, the characters of the enemies and allies they interact with, and the rewards and consequences of success and failure. You shouldn't have to sacrifice logic or consistency for fun because you should always be able to set up events in the game to unfold logically and consistently in a way that would be fun for the players even if their characters fail. And if you mess up, and you will, unless you're some kind of DMing prodigy, you should feel bad. Don't try to hide behind your excuses, learn from your mistakes, try not to repeat them, and become a better DM for your players.End rant.</blockquote>

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