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<blockquote data-quote="ThoughtBubble" data-source="post: 1317320" data-attributes="member: 9723">Yeah. Then I would have waited around, gotten lunch, and seen if they were going to move or not. &nbsp;Ah. Sounds a lot like your group is like mine then. Some people aren't big on self determination. My group filled out a survey, and their answers insisted that everything was fine, though it wasn't. But &quot;What do you want to do next game&quot; is a big question. It's hard to answer. I found, that working with focus groups, you get better answers if you ask questions like &quot;are the pictures too big?&quot; Try listing some options. And if you have allready, I apologise for presuming you hadn't.And my typical answer to the question of what direction I'd want to go, would be &quot;A direction where I'm very important.&quot; Not really helpful, and I'm a freaking DM.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Again. Sounds a lot like my situation. I know mine is the result of one bad egg, and a combination of the food they like and my cooking style. I just like garlic more than they do. And, allow me to say that there are&nbsp; many situations where fast food works out better than a gourmet meal. For example, when time or money is important. Or perhaps when you want the exact same level of mediocrity you had last week. What I found with my group is that they do their best work in the 30 seconds leading up to combat, and the 30 seconds of post beat down euphoria. It just took me 3 campaigns to realize that maybe I should work with that instead of trying intrigue or epic conquests. I can do that with a different set of people. But it's important to realize that if there is a problem, as DM you're a part of it, even if it is simply that you need to find a new group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThoughtBubble, post: 1317320, member: 9723"] Yeah. Then I would have waited around, gotten lunch, and seen if they were going to move or not. Ah. Sounds a lot like your group is like mine then. Some people aren't big on self determination. My group filled out a survey, and their answers insisted that everything was fine, though it wasn't. But "What do you want to do next game" is a big question. It's hard to answer. I found, that working with focus groups, you get better answers if you ask questions like "are the pictures too big?" Try listing some options. And if you have allready, I apologise for presuming you hadn't. And my typical answer to the question of what direction I'd want to go, would be "A direction where I'm very important." Not really helpful, and I'm a freaking DM. :D Again. Sounds a lot like my situation. I know mine is the result of one bad egg, and a combination of the food they like and my cooking style. I just like garlic more than they do. And, allow me to say that there are many situations where fast food works out better than a gourmet meal. For example, when time or money is important. Or perhaps when you want the exact same level of mediocrity you had last week. What I found with my group is that they do their best work in the 30 seconds leading up to combat, and the 30 seconds of post beat down euphoria. It just took me 3 campaigns to realize that maybe I should work with that instead of trying intrigue or epic conquests. I can do that with a different set of people. But it's important to realize that if there is a problem, as DM you're a part of it, even if it [U]is[/U] simply that you need to find a new group. [/QUOTE]

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