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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9707983" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I really don't think they ARE that rare--or, at least, merely "pretty mediocre" GMs are not nearly that rare. And "pretty mediocre" GM can mean both "just really mid on everything"...and "great at two things and garbage at two things" or "great at two things, below average but still okay at two things, and slightly bad but not offensively bad at one thing."This is why the standard people seem to hold up every. single. damned. time, where the ONLY options are "the GM is obviously the worst GM ever, just never ever play with them" or "the GM is perfect and never does anything even remotely problematic at all, ever" gets so incredibly irritating. It's entirely possible to have a GM who is mostly good, but has one or two areas where they aren't. Or someone who is absolutely PHENOMENAL at a few things, and disappointingly poor at others. Or whatever.This presumption that every GM is either perfectly good at every single thing, or perfectly BAD at every single thing, just doesn't hold muster. The vast majority of GMs have at least one area where they aren't particularly good. I'd even assert that a majority of GMs are outright poor with at least one of the skills demanded of GMs in the "traditional GM" format.</blockquote>