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Rant -- GM Control, Taking it Too Far?
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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4655749" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>I'm not worried if people know it's me or not. But if you want to speak your mind and bash me, I'm going to explain my side of it if I have the chance. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Think about this for a second. You <em>didn't</em> get things off your chest in a way that wasn't harmful to me or us as players. My wife found out that you were bashing me behind my back and doesn't feel comfortable seeing you in our home or knowing that I'm still playing D&D with you. You weren't just "discussing" a player vs DM issue, you were belittling me behind my back. The end result was that not only are you not playing in my campaign, but I'm not even playing in yours. So I think your posts were harmful to our gaming relationship.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>It was a big enough problem for you to rant about it though. So obviously it wasn't just a small issue for you. As I said, I must have misunderstood your history idea because I swear to you, my purpose was not to rewrite it & water it down, it was to make it work in the campaign. If asking that the history not involve a god, silly quirks stolen from the Muppets, or quirks that would annoy other players is considered rewriting & watering down, then I guess I am guilty and I stand by my decision. Those were the <strong>only</strong> issues I had. I never meant to make it seem like I was altering everything else you had written as a history. My other suggestions were only ideas to play off of what you came up with. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It would have been nice to see that you had my back though when people trashed me. I mean, if you're going to rant about me behind my back, and I find out, it would have been nice to see that you stuck up for me in your thread. Discussing DM control is cool, but you came off to me as if this was the "Oryan is a crappy DM" thread.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's cool man. I understand how these type of threads go. I just wish she held me in a little bit more of a positive light than she appeared to. I know it's a small thing & kinda silly, but even if I saw her defending me once, it would have meant a lot to me.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks. It's rare to hear both sides of the story. Believe me, I can rant about her as a player the same way but there is no reason for that. It's better for both of us to go our separate ways. </p><p></p><p>The funny thing is, I posted an ad yesterday on Enworld looking for a new player (I noticed she posted looking for a DM). I hope this thread isn't going to scare any potentially compatible players away <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 4655749, member: 18701"] I'm not worried if people know it's me or not. But if you want to speak your mind and bash me, I'm going to explain my side of it if I have the chance. Think about this for a second. You [i]didn't[/i] get things off your chest in a way that wasn't harmful to me or us as players. My wife found out that you were bashing me behind my back and doesn't feel comfortable seeing you in our home or knowing that I'm still playing D&D with you. You weren't just "discussing" a player vs DM issue, you were belittling me behind my back. The end result was that not only are you not playing in my campaign, but I'm not even playing in yours. So I think your posts were harmful to our gaming relationship. It was a big enough problem for you to rant about it though. So obviously it wasn't just a small issue for you. As I said, I must have misunderstood your history idea because I swear to you, my purpose was not to rewrite it & water it down, it was to make it work in the campaign. If asking that the history not involve a god, silly quirks stolen from the Muppets, or quirks that would annoy other players is considered rewriting & watering down, then I guess I am guilty and I stand by my decision. Those were the [b]only[/b] issues I had. I never meant to make it seem like I was altering everything else you had written as a history. My other suggestions were only ideas to play off of what you came up with. It would have been nice to see that you had my back though when people trashed me. I mean, if you're going to rant about me behind my back, and I find out, it would have been nice to see that you stuck up for me in your thread. Discussing DM control is cool, but you came off to me as if this was the "Oryan is a crappy DM" thread. It's cool man. I understand how these type of threads go. I just wish she held me in a little bit more of a positive light than she appeared to. I know it's a small thing & kinda silly, but even if I saw her defending me once, it would have meant a lot to me. Thanks. It's rare to hear both sides of the story. Believe me, I can rant about her as a player the same way but there is no reason for that. It's better for both of us to go our separate ways. The funny thing is, I posted an ad yesterday on Enworld looking for a new player (I noticed she posted looking for a DM). I hope this thread isn't going to scare any potentially compatible players away :p [/QUOTE]
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