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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8250628" data-attributes="member: 93670">Oh I agree, I deliberately picked an easy example to illustrate just for purposes of illustrating frustrations so it wouldn't need much context.&nbsp; Often wotc's polls do not even attempt to differentiate GM from player or ask questions relevant to both groups.&nbsp; As someone who is nearly always a gm&nbsp; &amp; precovid for multiple tables a week (personal+AL games) I could only stare at the question in disbelief over how irrelevant they were &amp; feel a bit of rage at the implication that GMs are apparently beneath consideration.&nbsp;&nbsp; They have indeed started getting better &amp; I agree on that regard but it's a recent development &amp; wotc has a long history of surveys that could be listed as figure1 in a section on how not to perform polls.Questions attempting to gauge desirability from players &amp; gms should generally by necessity be very different as their role responsibility &amp; experience in any given session will be dramatically different.&nbsp; For example... is this a good addition to my table?&nbsp; Am I happy about this thing&nbsp; among my players?&nbsp; Am I confident in my ability to leverage this thing for interesting results? How well does this thing fit into my campaign world.&nbsp; so on &amp; so forth.&nbsp; &quot;Is this thing fun&quot; is almost never ever relevant to me as a GM because my fun as a gm stems from juggling all the spinning plates &amp; chainsaws collectively making up my game world &amp; the campaign itself while doing things like working with my players to develop that tornado of buzzsaws &amp; provide my players routes to accomplish goals in the process of being awesome together as an example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8250628, member: 93670"] Oh I agree, I deliberately picked an easy example to illustrate just for purposes of illustrating frustrations so it wouldn't need much context. Often wotc's polls do not even attempt to differentiate GM from player or ask questions relevant to both groups. As someone who is nearly always a gm & precovid for multiple tables a week (personal+AL games) I could only stare at the question in disbelief over how irrelevant they were & feel a bit of rage at the implication that GMs are apparently beneath consideration. They have indeed started getting better & I agree on that regard but it's a recent development & wotc has a long history of surveys that could be listed as figure1 in a section on how not to perform polls. Questions attempting to gauge desirability from players & gms should generally by necessity be very different as their role responsibility & experience in any given session will be dramatically different. For example... is this a good addition to my table? Am I happy about this thing among my players? Am I confident in my ability to leverage this thing for interesting results? How well does this thing fit into my campaign world. so on & so forth. "Is this thing fun" is almost never ever relevant to me as a GM because my fun as a gm stems from juggling all the spinning plates & chainsaws collectively making up my game world & the campaign itself while doing things like working with my players to develop that tornado of buzzsaws & provide my players routes to accomplish goals in the process of being awesome together as an example. [/QUOTE]

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