Me when I want to be a player but the guest DM is doing it wrong:

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This is why my group has like four different games going. I run one, and three of the others also run their own. I get to play twice a week and run a game every other week.

I started DMing because no one else dared to try and I wanted a campaign to happen.

That was over 30 years ago.

I just wish I had the creativity, ability to improvise, and dedication necessary to DM. It’s the fact that I’m lacking in all three that keeps me out of that position.

Don’t tell my friends, but I actually like GMing more than playing now. It’s fun to have the galaxy-brain “always on” feeling and multitask information. (And it’s always your turn in combat!)

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Let’s see. I started as DM in 92, after the group I was a player in fell apart.

From then, it was 99 before I had a chance to play as a player again. However! It was the first time someone ran my home brew system other than me, so it was a double pleasure. It was cool as fuck to see my best friend build his own world around the same mechanics and ideas we’d used with me as GM

After that, it was, I think 2003? A friend ran a white wolf game series. We did Vampire, werewolf, and changeling (or whatever the faery system was called). That lasted maybe six months though, the dude running it was a flake.

That’s it, that’s the sum total of play time I’ve had as a player in thirty odd years lol.

I’ve gotten my fix in video games off and on. D&d online, neverwinter there for a while, replays of Baldur’s gate and 2, that weird superhero MMORPG. I’d play Baldur’s gate 3, but I don’t have the income to upgrade my hardware. That’s usually good enough tbh.

I’ve thought about finding an online group to join, but I’m not super reliable these days. My parents are aging, I’ve got a kid, so I can’t do regularly scheduled play reliably. That’s a big ask for a group to put up with.

Thing is, I fucking love running a game. The world building, the planning of sessions amd campaigns, all the minutia of it just makes me happy. I have NPC enemies built up in five or six game systems that probably won’t ever get used, but I have fun making them up.

When I don’t have a game going, I write instead.

I actually enjoy playing a lot more than DMing. I don’t really like DMing all that much but I hate not having a game even more. I wish one of my friends would step up to the plate.

My group’s had a pretty good thing going for 6ish years now. 3 out of the 6 if us all love DMing, and so we rotate beween new campaigns every couple years and all of us get a chance to play. We actually have 2 going on right now, and I’m a player in both. My last campaign ended in 2021 and I’ll be taking over for one of the campaigns in a couple months

Fucking love that my group is basically all the second guy. We’ve all taken the GM spot at one point.

I’d like to be the blue dude. I want to try running a little campaign, but my group has 2 very good GMs and I’m generally nervous and not good at talking. I’ve considered maybe running something online with some vague online friends to learn how, but our GMs are my roommates and I’m sure they would hear me playing with strangers and ask why and/or insist that our own group won’t judge me. Which they wouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean I want to look like a fuck up in front of them in comparison to the standard of GMing theyre used to

I’m the forever GM, but my players also insist I play a PC in the party, so I kinda still get to play. I think they know otherwise I’d never be a player. LOL

You might be the dumbest man alive but Laura Les sure is the dumbest girl alive !