D&D 5E Do you DM?

[TwoSix]

Had to vote other. My actual status (DM occasionally when my turn as DM comes up) isn't really there. I'm 80% play, 20% DM.

 

[BrokenTwin]

Most of my games lately consist of me teaching people new to the hobby, so I'm the GM by necessity. The hope is that I'll eventually get some potential new GMs in the mix who want to run.
I do have two games I'm a player in, but they're both games where I play despite the system they're running with (the respective GMs make up for it).

 

[atanakar]

I often get bored when I'm a player. Not because the DM is bad, just because I'm used to running games. I feel under stimulated. Also, the creative process, drawing of maps and plans is dear to me.

I never get involved in campaigns as a player. Only one shots.

 

[HarbingerX]

One option that is not there that my last group used for 5 years was a rotating DM. You DMed until you were burned out, then someone else took up continuing the sandbox.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'm kind of a rare bird, so I voted Other.

I'm a DM for one gaming group, and a player in two other separate gaming groups...so it's not really an even split. If anything, I'd say I'm 66% player and 34% DM. And in any of those groups, whether I'm a player or a DM, it's because I genuinely enjoy playing that side of the table.

 

[Fenris-77]

I'd play more but current circumstance mitigates for mostly DMing. I like both and it's possible I'd be too lazy to DM if there were great games to play in just waiting for me, so maybe that's a good thing.

 

[Richards]

I was the DM for most of my gaming career, up until just a few years ago. Then, even though I continued to DM my campaign, my grown son decided to try out the DM's hat and ran a short campaign to introduce my nephew to RPGs, so I got a chance to be a player for a change. Now he's running his third campaign, so I'm at about a 50/50 split - his campaign is weekly but for about 2 hours per session, while mine's more like monthly but generally for 5-6 hours. I think overall I prefer to be the DM but it is refreshing to not know ahead of time what's coming around the corner, so I'm also enjoying the player experience.

Johnathan

 

[oreofox]

I chose "other". I am DM because if I wasn't, I wouldn't be able to play. Thanks to my work schedule. I am a player in one game, but I think in the time I have been a player in that game (apparently first game was around halloween 2018), I have played a total of... *doing some math of 67 weeks, 3 sessions a week at 2 hours minus all the times I couldn't join in... * About 120 sessions (240 or so hours) if being generous. I'm pretty sure it's been less than that, though.

I also DM because I like the setting world I created nearly 20 years ago, and I know more about it than what I have written down. Plus I am constantly tweaking things as we play more, to get them balanced out. See what works, what doesn't, because I heavily homebrew.

I'd like to play more, but my work schedule doesn't lend to finding a game to play in (especially since so many want Friday or a weekend, or night games). Easier to find players that can work with my schedule than it is to find another DM.

 

[The Green Hermit]

I put that I am evenly split, but that is only because our group is small enough that it needs me to be a player as well as the DM. Nobody else in my game is willing/able to DM, although I am starting to get some of the older teens to hone their skills on maintenance tasks such as taking notes.

 

[The Green Hermit]

I wonder if there's anyone out there who could honestly vote for one option I notice to be missing:

DM only, never played.

(I couldn't vote for this either!)

In a way, that is me, since I started DMing on my first game. However, I have always had to also play a player, just so we had enough characters and didn't die miserably.