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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 5627281" data-attributes="member: 23023">In my group, I think there's two main complaints I'd have as a DM [and the other DMs in the group would have].1) Complaining/Commenting.  Basically, we all [yes myself included] sometimes get into a little whiny mood when things go terribly wrong or when we see something that just doesn't make any sense.  Like 'But that isn't in the rules' or 'Gawd, why did you give this character such terrible stats; he's basically unplayable' or 'X thing isn't supposed to work that why.'  Sometimes it makes sense, but sometimes we get so caught up in the rules that we don't think 'maybe its okay because he's the DM and he can do miscellaneous things [as long as they aren't too absurd!]'.2) The player who finds something from some source and decides that is what his character is going to be based off.  Sometimes it's okay and with a little bit of work it's playable.  Sometimes it's just not.  'You want to play a ten headed orc with bite attacks and fire breathing because you saw something like that on TV?  Not.  Happening.  Or the character that sees a 40k item but thinks with a little change it would be perfect for his character but he doesn't want to play the character if he can't get that item.  This happened to me as a DM.  Maybe the change would have been fine, maybe not, but I didn't want a player to design a 1st level character around a magical item he wouldn't be able to easily afford until like level 8-9.  Was just crazy.That's all I got for now.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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