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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 6767264" data-attributes="member: 5038">I don't know. Ask Rel, and I'm a Banana if they do interviews.  As for my players,three of my players interviewed me as I interviewed them (the process is not one way).  One of them tested me to see what he could get away with. When he saw that I stuck to my guns, he actually thanked me. He had no respect for his current DM as a DM.And  for my players and the Gygax comment, that was a joke (although there are several things Gygax espoused at times over the years for which they don't care). However, for my players can state the following:Two of my other players are from a prior campaign that lasted four or five years. A third player from that campaign is coming back.  We had two other players in that campaign that, eventually, moved (one to the east coast after getting married). These two players were good DMs (one DM'd around the country while travelling as military brat). However, every time either one of the two tried to give me a temporary break, I would get calls within one or two sessions from the other players asking me when I would be ready to resume (The two DMs and one of the guys from the prior campaign were in a prior four year campaign that I ran previosuly). All of these players from this prior campaign have had years playing with several DMs (three of them while stationed in various states and countries while in the military). They all have told me that I am the best DM they have had.  I am grateful for that.  I have tried to learn from some of the best GMs that I have had, from one of the worst (a screenwriter and video game writer with whom four of us had LARPed). However, I have no delusions that I am the greatest DM nor even a good DM for everyone (the latter, because there are too many playstyles and influences). Yet, if I were not a good DM (at least for the players whom I have had), they have/had choices for other GMs from within the group plus the Los Angeles area at large.  L.A. has a very large gaming community.  I also would not have prior players asking to sit in when they are in town. Nor, would I have other players and DMs asking me to sit in if I have an open seat, because they have heard good things from my players and/or played in LARPs that I ran back/co-ran in the early 2000s.</blockquote>

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