10/26/2009 - Everyone wants their own Reality Show

So last Saturday, at my 4e Eberron game on Saturday, I ran a game where the group's skyship had been attacked by a dragon they made mad before descending into a dungeon.  The group's skyship is sentient, a transplanted warforge who was one of the few that manifested a dragonmark, so it got away.  When the group came out and used their sending ritual to summon the airship back, the skyship limped back out of the clouds.  The group was pretty irate about it, unti

So I've been trying to study and compare the differences between the games I run and play in here on dndorks and the games I run and play IRL.  Playing in multiple games in both and running one game IRL and 3 games on the forums, I have a lot of material to contrast. One of the things I've noticed is how at the table, I feel like as the DM I'm often dealing with the group.  Generally I present something (info, a challenge, etc) to the group, the group talk amongst th