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What is the #1 most important thing to remember about DMing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5547886" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>That's a tough question. So another words; if an irresistible good idea hits an immovable bad idea, does it make a sound in the forest? </p><p></p><p>I guess I start out with a set of algorithms. I twitter these to whoever is following me and I compile any responses I get back. I then post those results to my Facebook page and wait until a blogger rants about them on his website. Sooner or later, a ninja links to the blog and forwards it to a his clan deep in the forests of Ming Shi Yiaoh. Along the way, a Neckbeard picks up the transmission and accidentally posts the secret code while he is edition warring on the WotC forums. The game designer trolling the forums sees that code, and writes out his agreement or disagreement on a note that he attaches to a carrier pigeon that he releases out the window. The pigeon finds the nearest pay phone booth, looks up my phone number, and calls me. It chirps the response to me in Morse Code which I then transcribe on my computer using sophisticated software. </p><p></p><p>The rest is pretty self-explanatory, really.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Really? That's surprising. I've seen DMs do it all the time. Their reasoning is usually something like, "I don't like the way the books do it." Or often it's, "I'm doing it like they did in *previous version of D&D*."</p><p></p><p>Then the game begins and all hell breaks out. A lot of times it ends with either the DM or a player going online asking for help to fix their broken game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 5547886, member: 18701"] That's a tough question. So another words; if an irresistible good idea hits an immovable bad idea, does it make a sound in the forest? I guess I start out with a set of algorithms. I twitter these to whoever is following me and I compile any responses I get back. I then post those results to my Facebook page and wait until a blogger rants about them on his website. Sooner or later, a ninja links to the blog and forwards it to a his clan deep in the forests of Ming Shi Yiaoh. Along the way, a Neckbeard picks up the transmission and accidentally posts the secret code while he is edition warring on the WotC forums. The game designer trolling the forums sees that code, and writes out his agreement or disagreement on a note that he attaches to a carrier pigeon that he releases out the window. The pigeon finds the nearest pay phone booth, looks up my phone number, and calls me. It chirps the response to me in Morse Code which I then transcribe on my computer using sophisticated software. The rest is pretty self-explanatory, really. Really? That's surprising. I've seen DMs do it all the time. Their reasoning is usually something like, "I don't like the way the books do it." Or often it's, "I'm doing it like they did in *previous version of D&D*." Then the game begins and all hell breaks out. A lot of times it ends with either the DM or a player going online asking for help to fix their broken game. :p [/QUOTE]
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