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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 1560388" data-attributes="member: 15582">A separate phenomena I wanted to include was how shocked I felt when I didn’t get the “Golden Rule” applied to me (uh, the RL golden rule, “do unto others …,” not the “I am the GM” golden rule.)I had two really creative, yet pushy, players who always wanted special allowances for over the top PCs. I usually gave it to them and took it as a challenge to improv how these characters impacted my games. Admittedly, this got old after awhile and other players asked for “mercy.” <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=":)" />One player was a min/maxer, the other was always looking for a more social edge (i.e. he knows we are playing Farscape with the rest of the party being escapees and he wants to play an alien prince who can rent the ship as an incognito taxi.)These guys wanted to GM their own little games, I was glad to join their games, expecting them to fit my playing style to a “T,” but when it was my time to come up with my creative over the top PCs, I was shot down repeatedly. In fact, the social dude did end up running some games and he was like the strictest GM I had in a long time. In many cases, he even tweaked character creation to produce weaker than average starting PCs.Long story short, these guys could dish out the over the top and min/maxed PCs, but didn’t want to take it.</blockquote>

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