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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8341112" data-attributes="member: 97077">With regard to not stopping the flow of the game, I tend to agree with that unless the DM does something egregious. There's really nothing in the context of the game that is going to be important enough to me to stop the game and have a conversation about it. Railroad me, block me, make a bad adjudication, make my character look like a fool - fine. If it bothers me, I'll talk to the DM later about it. I don't think anyone is a bad player for speaking up about these things, but I would probably take a dim view of a fellow player's interruption if it was truly a minor issue that could otherwise be overlooked by a reasonable person or addressed at a later date. I think for the most part this sort of viewpoint, which I think is fairly common, is not so much about deference to the god-king DM as it is about not wanting to derail the game with Yet Another Unimportant Side Discussion which plague many games already. I can't be the only one to have played with players that would interject insignificant details or rules that changed nothing and who interrupted the game by doing so.I really don't see that assumption as universal though, likely diminished from what it may have once been perceived to be, and even when it was more prevalent, anyone with a brain could have seen it for the hogwash it was. So really I have no pity for folks who bought into that silly notion. But just like any conversation in a group, choose your battles and timing wisely to achieve the result you want. Otherwise you risk looking like a bigger jerk than the DM who offended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8341112, member: 97077"] With regard to not stopping the flow of the game, I tend to agree with that unless the DM does something egregious. There's really nothing in the context of the game that is going to be important enough[I] to me[/I] to stop the game and have a conversation about it. Railroad me, block me, make a bad adjudication, make my character look like a fool - fine. If it bothers me, I'll talk to the DM later about it. I don't think anyone is a bad player for speaking up about these things, but I would probably take a dim view of a fellow player's interruption if it was truly a minor issue that could otherwise be overlooked by a reasonable person or addressed at a later date. I think for the most part this sort of viewpoint, which I think is fairly common, is not so much about deference to the god-king DM as it is about not wanting to derail the game with Yet Another Unimportant Side Discussion which plague many games already. I can't be the only one to have played with players that would interject insignificant details or rules that changed nothing and who interrupted the game by doing so. I really don't see that assumption as universal though, likely diminished from what it may have once been perceived to be, and even when it was more prevalent, anyone with a brain could have seen it for the hogwash it was. So really I have no pity for folks who bought into that silly notion. But just like any conversation in a group, choose your battles and timing wisely to achieve the result you want. Otherwise you risk looking like a bigger jerk than the DM who offended. [/QUOTE]

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