The Problem I Find Myself In (Long, Sorry)

[Mistwell]

Switch back to 3e. There's a three-to-one majority in favor - #5 wants 4e, whereas wife and DM want 3e. Everyone knows the DM's vote counts double.

Give us a tougher one next time, that was too easy.

Yeah, you're right, option d is the only one possible. You don't like running Pathfinder, group only wants to play Pathfinder ergo you cannot run a game for them.

This is a tougher dilemma than the one Andrew presented us with, because there is the problem of feeling that you are shirking your duties. However, I think d is the lesser of several evils.

He said the "bulk" of the group doesn't want to switch to 4e, not all of them. If you're giving the DM extra votes in one scenario, wouldn't you give him extra votes in the other? And, combined with the non-bulk of the group (which I assume is probably 2 players at least given the language used), are we not looking at essentially the same scenario?

I dunno, the guy already converted the adventure to the system he prefers, and it's his turn, and they rotate. Seems like the players should suck it up and play the system this DM likes. If it really bugs some of them at least they know it will eventually rotate to someone else.

In a rotating DM system, it sure seems like the decision should even more be "whatever the DM wants". Why would you let some of the players dictate he not get a turn at all in that kind of scenario, particularly for a system apparently they have not even had the opportunity to try yet?