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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3286501" data-attributes="member: 10177"><p>Does the rest of the group feel the way you do? If so approach him as a group.</p><p></p><p>If you approach him as a group, and tell him that you like his DMing and all, but want to try out some other settings, he should be good with it. As long as your not expecting him to buy all the books if he hasn't already.</p><p></p><p>Or you can buy the books, bring them to the game, and read it during breaks, or whenever else you would offend anyone, and try and get him to check it out. Then he can decide to use it.</p><p></p><p>I have run into DM's who thought their homebrew was "awesome", or at least "way better than that published stuff", and they were wrong. I was just lucky enough to live in a community where I had other DM's to chose from. So I had the "leave" option.</p><p></p><p>In your case you are going to have to talk, and take the risks. Just be as diplomatic as you can, and the more of your group that backs you up the more likely he is to listen.</p><p></p><p>If he is so hung up on himself that he can't deal with the fact you guys want to try something else, well, either one of you is going to have to step up and try DMing, or your going to have to go without gaming, or give him time to "grow up" about it.</p><p></p><p>I am a good DM, but I know I am not great, so whenever my players wanted me to try something else, let them DM for a while, whatever, I was willing to do it. Even when they said they wanted a complete break and wanted to try something like Shadowrun, I was more than happy to do it. Especially since I really liked how Doug runs Shadowrun.</p><p></p><p>Besides, they were right. The break did all of us a lot of good. When I went back to DMing I had new energy and fresh ideas, and we had noticeably greater fun.</p><p></p><p>So give the talk a try. Hopefully it will go a lot better than you think. Who knows, maybe he wants to change things but can't read you guys well enough to see you feel the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 3286501, member: 10177"] Does the rest of the group feel the way you do? If so approach him as a group. If you approach him as a group, and tell him that you like his DMing and all, but want to try out some other settings, he should be good with it. As long as your not expecting him to buy all the books if he hasn't already. Or you can buy the books, bring them to the game, and read it during breaks, or whenever else you would offend anyone, and try and get him to check it out. Then he can decide to use it. I have run into DM's who thought their homebrew was "awesome", or at least "way better than that published stuff", and they were wrong. I was just lucky enough to live in a community where I had other DM's to chose from. So I had the "leave" option. In your case you are going to have to talk, and take the risks. Just be as diplomatic as you can, and the more of your group that backs you up the more likely he is to listen. If he is so hung up on himself that he can't deal with the fact you guys want to try something else, well, either one of you is going to have to step up and try DMing, or your going to have to go without gaming, or give him time to "grow up" about it. I am a good DM, but I know I am not great, so whenever my players wanted me to try something else, let them DM for a while, whatever, I was willing to do it. Even when they said they wanted a complete break and wanted to try something like Shadowrun, I was more than happy to do it. Especially since I really liked how Doug runs Shadowrun. Besides, they were right. The break did all of us a lot of good. When I went back to DMing I had new energy and fresh ideas, and we had noticeably greater fun. So give the talk a try. Hopefully it will go a lot better than you think. Who knows, maybe he wants to change things but can't read you guys well enough to see you feel the same. [/QUOTE]
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