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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5733079" data-attributes="member: 54877">I think it is not uncommon for gamers on forums to think that their own players are pretty darn good, but that there are some sucky ones out there. (It is not all that different from surveys of USA residents opinions on Congress as a whole, versus their congressman--there has been for decades a sizable relative bias in favor of the local guy no matter how much the absolute numbers move up or down.) Some of this is natural. I know there are some sucky ones out there because I've played with them, but they aren't in my games now. Whereas, a big reason that the current ones are the current ones is that they are great (for the kind of games we like, of course).  I'm also fairly certain that about half the games represented by a person on this board would consider me, were I in their game, at best an average player--simply due to stylistic preferences. (Nevermind those that found me lacking for more substantial reasons.) The guys at a FLGS when I tried to start a second game apparently thought I was a sucky DM--unlike the several other second groups I've run over the years that were fine with the game. But then that won't happen much, because I've never had any trouble finding players to fill a group for the style I want to run. So I suspect that a lot of the negative impressions of general player/DM ability comes from people having a difficult time filling a group with people that share their preferences.</blockquote>

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