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I don't mean to single you out, but I feel like this phrase was repeated a number of times in this thread: "DMing is not hard. DMing...

Hello. I'm one of the supposedly rare specimens that find GM-ing very difficult. I find improv hard. It's very difficult for me to...

Yes…that’s what being “hard” means. If Dming was easy I would do it right the first time and need little to no practice. Dming is a...

It seems to me what's often missing is good instructions on how to be a better player. Stuff like trying to roll with the vibe of the...

We’re at a time where there are more game systems then every before and more people playing D&D than ever before - by country mile. The...

I am not a fan of 2024, but it is literally the first DMG to provide short adventures you can plug in anywhere.

Exactly. And if the prevailing attitude is “no gaming is better than bad gaming,” then new referees never get the time they need to suck...

I think it is medium. The amount of soft skills necessary to become good at DM'ing is far higher than a wide variety of other games. And...

Can I volunteer?

I don’t find running game sessions easy. And I’ve been in a lot of bad sessions, enough to make me think it’s not that easy to run a...

Personally I find improvising things with consequences for a narrative I want to keep consistent, while also juggling a bunch of rules...

Finding people who can schedule you in and allow you to do that as much as needed, feels like it might be hard though...

I don’t think you are wrong but one big difference between learning when we were 10 and learning when you are an adult, is that back...

At the end of the day, this is pretty much what you have to do. I used to bemoan the "circus troupe" group. It annoyed the crap out of...

People shout at WotC when they do anything new. Or anything old.