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Not at all. I'm saying a LOT of DMs overvalue their own greatness. Convinced they DON'T make mistakes, don't have anything new to learn, and are never the cause of problems in their own games. Frankly, the Dunning–Kruger effect is overrepresented amongst DMs. It's not the fact that they are just...

The road to greatness is littered with people who aren't as good as they think they are but nonetheless manage to keep doing what they do despite.

No, because they are kids and are supposed to be bad while they practice and learn. If your in college or pro and your fumbling catches more than completing them, you're a bad player. Well you defeated your own argument by saying they are good. If they are good, I wouldn't say they are bad just...

The Four classes I would not play 1-20 in 5.5 1. Fighter 2. Wizard 3. Cleric 4. Rogue.

I'd be curious* to know what you think the percentage of bad musicians are. Or bad artists. Or bad football players. Or bad authors. My wager is that whatever that number is, it's about the same as bad DMs and it's going to be significantly higher than 2.5%. * Actually, I'm not. its rhetorical.

I believe the Supreme Court's definition of indecency applies: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it"

“If I had a clone, I’d make out with myself.” (SNL 10/12/02 - S28 E2)

Many, but not all. I believe there are a fair number of DMs who get married to the concept of their world or the NPCs they create or the plot they created or the setting details and forget that the game isn't (just) for their (the DM's) amusement. I tend to find the Original Sin of bad DMs is...

I cannot fathom hard locking most D&D worlds. Part of the enjoyment of the game is discovering new species and monsters. I would hate to shackle my world to "Only the stuff in the core rulebooks exist. Nothing else" for example. (And I realize most DMs have far less of a problem introducing new...

My rule of thumb when I DM is to ask myself "would I want to play under me if I was a player?" I find that focus guides me out of a lot of pitfalls and it steels my spine when it needs it. To me, a DM should always keep their players in mind when designing. To many DMs are married to the concept...

Yoink!

I have only run premade for a while now. I gave up on homebrew. It was a lot of extra work do develop a bunch of info no player ever remembered or used. The things that made my games special were characters and stories, and that is what I focus on. So my last few games have alternated between...

Except for when your DM says "I'm going to run Shadow of the Dragon Queen" and you have to have to sit at home for months or even years until the DM finishes and picks a game that "fits".

Same crap DM mentioned above. This one i wasn't there for. One of the players was saying he heard it from another player. Grain of salt. DM had an NPC mage who wasn't supposed to die who did. That NPC had his spellbook in his lair and the PC mage grabbed it. I don't know what spell was in it...

You have two years until the sequel drops

Depends where you went to college! I heard a lot about this guy second hand. The vampire story was real though. Someone asked if they could play their PC (a half-elf mage/thief) in his game. Rather than say no or even say "yes, but with changes" he tossed the PC into a dungeon run by a vampire...

I Honestly don't care how any DM plays except for the ones I play with. I DO care how the game is presented in the rulebooks and nothing more. I have found as the game has aged, it has grown more to my preferred style so outside of some occasional disagreement, I have felt the game as a whole is...

Never is a strong term, but IMHO the less restraints you place, the better. Highly curated campaigns (like Dark Sun or Dragonlance) burn out quickly because you have so few options. For example, in Dragonlance, every wizard is a part of giant fraternal order of mages regardless of alignment or...

Yes and no. We switched from 2e to 3e, and 3e's more precise rules made it harder for him to use the DM is Always Right to fuzzy away things he didn't like. At the very least, we could use RAW to shield us from some of his impulses. Put another way: if you know someone could be harmful to...