Guys,
I run a weekly game which I put a lot of effort in. I also participate in a bi-weekly game where another person DMs, and honestly, I find him to be a pretty crummy DM and I'm not sure if I'm just being arrogant or what but what would you call a DM who:
1) In the months that we've played together has never once tried to relate the environment to the characters, he has never taken interest in our characters personality and goals, and just runs his adventure completely stock out of the book (it's a pre-written adventure).
2) Despite the fact that it's a pre-written adventure, he never comes prepared in the sense that he must read the details of the dungeon rooms and encounters as they occur and we all need to sit there patiently for minutes at a time for him to finish reading and then be greeted with "hmm, wonder what they mean by this..." or "Hmm, oh okay they're refering to this page". And he will read the environment descriptions directly off the book with little to no emotion in his voice.
3) Despite the fact that our party is clearly overpowered, has never adjusted the battles to increase the challenge. We have hence never once had what I could call a tense fight. We usually finish all fights in two rounds or less, and with barely any damage.
Is it just me or does he just not care all that much or maybe has poor taste in what makes a good game? And being faced with this situation, I have difficulty imagining the situation where I would come up to him and tell him to up his game, and hence since I am hosting the game at my house, I'm just tempted to either cancel the whole campaign and/or try to change the DM, both things which are pretty damn politically uncomfortable and are bound to ruffle more than a few feathers and cause people to leave (we're not particularly close friends outside the campaign).
What would you guys do?
