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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4642938" data-attributes="member: 3887">I've been that DM --a long time ago, mind you-- and all I can say is I'm glad I'm no longer. The game works better when it belongs to everyone participating. So I sympathize.The DM shouldn't try to legislate the tone of the player characters. You can't legislate gravitas, or, more accurately, attempts to do so end up being sillier than campaigns that embrace lightheartedness. Many DM's aspire to Tolkien's heights. Do I need to discuss how many succeed?My experience is that a campaign worth taking seriously will be taken seriously by the players, despite the presence of animal companions w/pun names.&nbsp; My experience also shows me that the silly and serious can co-exist peacefully in D&amp;D --hell, in the entire fantasy genre. A campaign can contain jokes without being a joke campaign. Our long-running 3.5e game is a testimony to that, as is our new 4e game, come to think...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4642938, member: 3887"] I've been that DM --a long time ago, mind you-- and all I can say is I'm glad I'm no longer. The game works better when it belongs to everyone participating. So I sympathize. The DM shouldn't try to legislate the tone of the player characters. You can't legislate [i]gravitas[/i], or, more accurately, attempts to do so end up being sillier than campaigns that embrace lightheartedness. Many DM's aspire to Tolkien's heights. Do I need to discuss how many succeed? My experience is that a campaign worth taking seriously will be taken seriously by the players, despite the presence of animal companions w/pun names. My experience also shows me that the silly and serious can co-exist peacefully in D&D --hell, in the entire fantasy genre. A campaign can contain jokes without being a joke campaign. Our long-running 3.5e game is a testimony to that, as is our new 4e game, come to think... [/QUOTE]

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