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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Advilaar" data-source="post: 5999386" data-attributes="member: 6698911">A little note before I get too much hate. I can hear some on this board grumbling. In fact I hear three words in particular: MONTY HAUL CAMPAIGN Those three words are sometimes used in disdain and spite along with the other cuss words POWER GAMER MUNCHKIN In fact, let me talk about the word POWER GAMER in particular and a little story from running into other DMs. I once, believe it or not, got refused to be allowed to play in some girl's game because I admitted to running a very high level campaign. She said PCs should not be that powerful in any tabletop. In fact, she refused to DM for anyone who "POWER GAMED". However, it was OKAY when she was running a larp, she said. So, let me get this straight. No letting the PCs do cool epic stuff, but if you are the coolest chick in 1990s/2000s era LARPs and are part of the cool crowd in Camerilla you CAN because no one else can?  I find with "weak PC" advocates a form of selfishness many times, but not always. Maybe the campaign affected me. But after years of running this, it made me very critical of overly controlling DMs. Now, I will say the other extreme is not cool. You do need some form of controls such as rules. But I like RPGs for the fact that anything can happen with imagination. And stories can be good if you are Conan the boy or Conan the King. Even the old myths of gods and demigods were highly read when they were out. Folks worshipped those stories. Which brings me to the next Harsh lesson of a DM: Power is okay, but be prepared to deal with it and not freak out when things get easier for the PCs. 3M gold and a ton of great items? No problem <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The PCs loved it!</blockquote>

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