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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8429444" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Oh my god, so he railroaded you a bit and for that he is a "bad" DM ?Yes, just as there is no reason for DMs to have to DM for annoying and entitled players who don't respect his work either.I'm sorry, but none of these cases seem really that bad to me except possibly the third one, and even there, I would like to hear his side of the story. A DM puts work and effort into preparing for play, whereas players only come to the table expecting to be entertained. Maybe the type of game that he was running was not for you, and you expected some sort of sandbox where you could do whatever you wanted, but most of the game that I've been in don't work that way. If the DM prepares something and the player deliberately ignore what he has been preparing, run their own ideas and just expect him to bend to their ideas and model the world around their wishes, maybe it's not what the DM expects out of it either.Again, I was not there, so I don't know what happened, whose fault it was or actually whether there was actually a fault or just a lack of mutual respect or different expectations about the game, but I'll leave you with the words of Tasha: "The players will respect you and the effort it takes to create a fun game for everyone. The players will allow you to direct the campaign..."But in any case, he does not sound like a really bad DM in the sense that maybe he was a bit inexperienced and railroading, but I don't detect any nasty intention in what he was doing, and possibly protecting the plot that he had prepared is not a crime.</blockquote>

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