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I can think of at least three people in my circles who share at least one of your three reasons for finding GMing difficult, and I can...

I know a couple of the people I GM for have run into anxiety-related walls connected to their GMing, that's a real thing, and it's at...

I think part of the problem here, is that I and I suspect some others here have not run into the latter kind or if we have, I know that...

Both of these things are true. DMing takes effort, and doesn’t give immediate positive results for that effort. Running a game...

Well, that's quite the meltdown you've got going there, sport.

"Takes time and practice to get better at" is not the same thing as "massively difficult." No, you're not going to look/sound/feel like...

I enjoy eating pizza, more so than making it, and I was a pizza maker for a while. I like different kinds of pizza, though not with Bell...

When I look at the reaction to ads or products framing GMing as “hard,” I see something deeper than a disagreement about difficulty. The...

I think DMing is both easy and hard. Most people can DM and be at least adequate. But even though I've been DMing forever and have...

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...

Well, as I said--folks expect more of their rules now. Rules that tell you almost nothing about what a character is or what they can...

It seems worth pointing out that a lot of things that kinda fall on GMs to do are more social/hosting things, and GMs end up doing them...

It's both. Dungeon World is a "Powered by the Apocalypse" ("PbtA") game, so it is a more narrative game, but it was made by people...

Terrible is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Over the years, I've been told I was a bad GM on several occasions online. I've been...