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I think it's harder to DM now because I'm old with a half dozen systems still percolating in my head. Some don't work together well...

Excellent analogy. The existence of restaurants doesn't mean everyone dines out, but you do need to actually learn to cook, and doing...

Sure, and that's their problem. Unless, of course, you make it yours.

Weird. Most of my college group is still playing. The HS GM that introduced me to TTRPGs also still plays. I am still in touch with...

Yes I see it a lot like public speaking. Most people can become reasonably competent at it with work, but many people require work and...

I enjoyed DMing Basic and AD&D, it didn’t feel too taxing. Call of Cthulhu campaigns on the other hand could be a nightmare.

Yes. I was just responding the suggestion that getting paid as a DM contributes to it.

The fact people have bad sessions--as players or as GMs--doesn't mean GMing isn't easier than a lot of people say it is. As someone said...

I think a lot of it is "not what I want in a GM," but that's not a strident disagreement.

In order to be good at something, you have to be ok with being bad at it for a while. I usually make this comment in the context of art...

Obviously I'm not the person you're responding to, but the existence of the GM-Advice Industrial Complex doesn't seem to relate much to...

One of the things I really dislike that has come out of the rise of popularity of D&D (and to some degree other RPGs; but let's be...

TFW you can tell the person you have ignore that everyone is responding to is complaining about the ignore feature.

"John, we already do the same thing when we get together and quote Monty Python and the Princess Bride at each other. That's called...

Wow! That's some passive-aggressive pettiness, and I should know, I've been doing the exact same thing for a while now! :ROFLMAO: