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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6097813" data-attributes="member: 22779">Perhaps no player has said anything like this to you because of the massive over reaction that you are showing here and the fact that doing so would get them ejected from the game?You are telling me that at no time when you've DM'd that you've had bored players?  Never?  Not once?  Every single scenario you've brought to the table has been gaming gold?  Well, I suppose that could be true.  I'm a more average DM, so, I know that not every idea I have is gold and have no real ego problems with the players telling me so.  I'd much rather have the players do so than pretend to like what I'm doing just to protect my fragile ego to the point where suggesting that a given scene wasn't much fun would cause me to close the books and quit the game.But, hey, that's just me.  Like I said, I would not enjoy your game Celebrim.  I wouldn't.  I'm sorry if that's so offensive but, I just would not enjoy it.  It is not to my taste.  Not that it's a bad game or anything like that.  It's just not to my taste.  That doesn't mean that I'm immature, or a bad gamer or anything like that.  I just have no interest in spending table time on things that I don't enjoy.  Skip to the fun.  Now, if I'm the only one at the table not having fun?  Sure, bow out gracefully and no harm, no foul.  But, again, suggesting that the current scene isn't that much fun, could we just skip to the next bit, should not result in the DM taking his ball and going home.  It is not a failure to have a bad scene.  It happens.  At least, it happens to us mere mortal DM's.  I'd rather trust the players enough to believe that they know how to make the game fun, just as much as I do.  When you give the players that much trust, it's amazing what happens.  The entire group is now responsible for everyone's fun.  It's liberating and absolutely fantastic.  At least, that has been my experience.  The idea that anyone at the table owes "absolute respect for the DM" when I'm sitting behind the DM's screen is so far from my experience that I have no idea what that would be like.  I do not expect nor want that from my players.</blockquote>

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