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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3978190" data-attributes="member: 3649">There is nothing wrong with you, and it actually sounds like your DM is a terrible storyteller. Even in a dark fantasy, a good storyteller knows how to craft an appropriate atmosphere and sense of tension or even hope. Even Call of Cthulhu has hope and sacrifice and the ability to have a happy ending... just not in the long term sense. But you can certainly have a great deal of success staving off The End for at least the length of your own lifetime. It almost sounds like your GM has read too many bad or shallow accounts of dark fantasy works and thinks that what he's doing is actually how the genre should work. What you're describing isn't what I'd call heroic fantasy, but dark fantasy. A perfectly legitimate form of fantasy, but it doesn't sound like what you signed up for and it's not something that D&amp;D does particularly well without severe tweaking and some pretty hefty buy-in from the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 3978190, member: 3649"] There is nothing wrong with you, and it actually sounds like your DM is a terrible storyteller. Even in a dark fantasy, a good storyteller knows how to craft an appropriate atmosphere and sense of tension or even hope. Even Call of Cthulhu has hope and sacrifice and the ability to have a happy ending... just not in the long term sense. But you can certainly have a great deal of success [I]staving off [/I] The End for at least the length of your own lifetime. It almost sounds like your GM has read too many bad or shallow accounts of dark fantasy works and [I]thinks [/I] that what he's doing is actually how the genre should work. What you're describing isn't what I'd call heroic fantasy, but dark fantasy. A perfectly legitimate form of fantasy, but it doesn't sound like what you signed up for and it's not something that D&D does particularly well without severe tweaking and some pretty hefty buy-in from the players. [/QUOTE]

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