The role of the GM

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

All? no. Most? Yes. The midpoint is pretty thin, and I see a bimodal distribution.

I've never encountered that many bad GMs. Sure, I've run into some that weren't to my taste, but not bad.

Why do you think you've run into so many bad GMs? What do you consider bad? What do you consider abusive? What do you consider good? What do you consider to be your entitlement as a player? Could it be possible that the GMs weren't bad, but just incompatible with your tastes.

In your history of bad GMs, did all the players hate this GM? Was there consensus or were you the odd man out?

Have you noticed any patterns in the bad GMs? Is there a pattern in the games the bad GMs tend to run? Is there a pattern in the locations where these games take place? Genre? Age?

I'd like to figure out what is going on here.