DM vs. Players. Unusual experiences.

[Bard]

Once, I've seen a DM, who was speaking from his players perspective. For example:

DM: Okay, there is this door, what shall we do?
Players: Blah, blah, blah, we go in.
Dm: Okay, so we go in... There is a room, and in the room an angry Ogre. Roll for initiative!

...fight...

DM: Okay, we won! Now what shall we do?

etc. etc.

He seemed to me a completely normal DM, except for this perspective in his speaking... I must add, that I could watch this for a very short time, a long time ago in an rpg club, and have never again met that guy...

Any similar experiences?

[makofan]

Umm, I cheer for my players. I always want them to overcome every obstacle, and cringe when they do dumb things or have bad rolls and I have to kill them in gruesome ways. Is that unusual?

[Finarvyn]

Sounds like a DM who isn't at all adversarial against his players but instead is more "us versus them" and he considers himself to be part of "us".

Unusual, but not too creepy. :-)

[Bard]

I actually thought, that it was a very cool approach to the game... I never tried it though...

[ffilz]

Does the DM have an NPC?

I think I have slipped into this language when running a GMPC (an NPC that I play more like a PC). To me, this language is a bit worrisome, though I don't think a GMPC is automatically a bad thing, but to me this language would make me look for other warning signs that the GM is over-invested in his GMPC and might not be deferring to the players. I know I have sometimes crossed that line (realizing that other people also draw the line differently).

If the GM doesn't have an NPC, I'd also consider this language worrisome and looks for other signs of a GM lording it over his players.

Frank