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<blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 4675772" data-attributes="member: 44184">haakon1, that's some awesome stuff right there. I find myself wanting to do something like that in one of our more serious games. It's awesome.Oryan77, you said that you shouldn't have to defend yourself to someone when they ask you why you won't allow something. I disagree heavily with that. While I disagree quite a bit with your method of DMing that you've mentioned, this is where I have the biggest problem. I hate being told to do something without a reason. When I ask, it's so that I can understand. I have ADD. In me, it means that anything I don't get starts to confuse and anger me. I'm a teacher. I've been given conflicting instructions by the principal before and got in trouble later because they didn't jibe in my mind and I screwed up both of them. When I sit down to role-play for fun, I like to have a lot of creative control. I'll throw out a few ideas, see if the DM has any problems, and go from there. If there's something that I really want to do, and he doesn't want it, I will ask for a reason. If he refuses to give one beyond, &quot;No me gusta.&quot; then we have a problem and I have no problem arguing. It's a good gaming group of friends, so this sort of thing isn't a game killer.If there's an established world, plot, and tone, then I'll agree with you that someone purposely being goofy is an annoyance. But, I think that there's a problem with your statement &quot;I just don't want to hear a stupid name that fits more in a Loony Tunes episode rather than a Star Wars movie.&quot; After all, one of the main characters in Star Wars is named Chewy.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Engilbrand, post: 4675772, member: 44184"] haakon1, that's some awesome stuff right there. I find myself wanting to do something like that in one of our more serious games. It's awesome. Oryan77, you said that you shouldn't have to defend yourself to someone when they ask you why you won't allow something. I disagree heavily with that. While I disagree quite a bit with your method of DMing that you've mentioned, this is where I have the biggest problem. I hate being told to do something without a reason. When I ask, it's so that I can understand. I have ADD. In me, it means that anything I don't get starts to confuse and anger me. I'm a teacher. I've been given conflicting instructions by the principal before and got in trouble later because they didn't jibe in my mind and I screwed up both of them. When I sit down to role-play for fun, I like to have a lot of creative control. I'll throw out a few ideas, see if the DM has any problems, and go from there. If there's something that I really want to do, and he doesn't want it, I will ask for a reason. If he refuses to give one beyond, "No me gusta." then we have a problem and I have no problem arguing. It's a good gaming group of friends, so this sort of thing isn't a game killer. If there's an established world, plot, and tone, then I'll agree with you that someone purposely being goofy is an annoyance. But, I think that there's a problem with your statement "I just don't want to hear a stupid name that fits more in a Loony Tunes episode rather than a Star Wars movie." After all, one of the main characters in Star Wars is named Chewy. :) [/QUOTE]

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