How long have you been a DM?

[freebfrost]

This spawned for me from the Are you a good Dungeon Master? thread, which posed that question.

I'm getting the feeling that people who consider themselves good DM's are those that have invested a lot of time (15+ years) in DMing.

I know that I would have likely answered the question differently 10 years ago, so I'm curious to see the lengths of time people have been playing and if it correlates to their impression of their gaming skills.

So, how long have you been a DM, and do you consider yourself "good" at what you do?

 

[Odhanan]

17 years, and yes, I'm good at what I do (this excludes the occasional bad session which may happen to anyone).

 

[IcyCool]

Started GMing Shadowrun in 1993 or so. Gm'd my first 3E D&D game about 2 or 3 years ago. I ran a Legend of the Five Rings game about a year and a half ago. And I've been running a D&D 3.5 game for about a year now.

So I guess that puts me in the 10-15 year category, although I didn't spend a lot of that time DMing.

Edit - Forgot, I ran a short-lived X-files style Demon:The Fallen campaign a year ago, but that was cut short because I moved.

 

[diaglo]

i've been a referee since the 70's

 

[LostSoul]

1987.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Going on 14 years now with various systems. I'm not the best, but I am one of the few out of my group that doesn't mind DM'ing.

 

[demiurge1138]

First GMing was in 2001. So young...

Demiurge out.

 

[Jim Hague]

18 years. That's well over half of my entire life. Scary. Still, I wouldn't give it up for anything.

 

[devilbat]

Sixteen years for me.

 

[Crothian]

25 years, I started way to young. One day I'll be good at it.