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<blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 2959141" data-attributes="member: 3854"><p>My initial response to reading this is that it was meant as a joke. But others have said similar things (just not in as much detail).</p><p></p><p>The idea that a DM must come to each game session either with two dozen potential adventures, ready to run at the whim of the PCs, or with none at all, ready to make up everything at the whim of the PCs, is absurd. </p><p></p><p>You either burn out a DM quickly, or you don’t play much RPGs.</p><p></p><p>There is a difference between a DM preparing (or buying) an adventure, making plot hooks for the specific PCs, and expecting the PCs to go on the adventure, and a DM forcing you to go on an adventure, against the Player’s will, and orchestrating a pre-determined outcome. If you don’t understand that there is a difference, we simply can’t continue a discussion on the subject because our definitions are as different as saying black is white..</p><p></p><p>Quasqueton</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quasqueton, post: 2959141, member: 3854"] My initial response to reading this is that it was meant as a joke. But others have said similar things (just not in as much detail). The idea that a DM must come to each game session either with two dozen potential adventures, ready to run at the whim of the PCs, or with none at all, ready to make up everything at the whim of the PCs, is absurd. You either burn out a DM quickly, or you don’t play much RPGs. There is a difference between a DM preparing (or buying) an adventure, making plot hooks for the specific PCs, and expecting the PCs to go on the adventure, and a DM forcing you to go on an adventure, against the Player’s will, and orchestrating a pre-determined outcome. If you don’t understand that there is a difference, we simply can’t continue a discussion on the subject because our definitions are as different as saying black is white.. Quasqueton [/QUOTE]
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