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A player is free to disagree or feel discontent with a final ruling - I'm far from perfect. But "You ruled in my favor in the heat of...

I will often err on the side of the player with my initial ruling, then give it a proper investigation after the game for an actual...

I can only speak to mixing the 2014 and 2024 rules: It's fine. Nothing clashes. You might run into some issues if two players are...

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...

But have any of your players told you that? Have you ever had players revolt en masse from your table? If no, then, you're probably...

It feels like there is a lot of space between rock star and not sucking with signs of a positive trajectory. I certainly believe that...

DMing is easy. As you point out, even 10 year olds can do it. Being a good DM, however, is actually hard. It takes a lot of work to...

There's also the familiarity factor. When you literally have no idea how the rules work, it looks--and feels--like magic, a black box...

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...

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...

It's been said already, but I don't find DMing to be HARD necessarily, but I do find it to be quite a bit of WORK. Granted, I develop my...

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...

More like adults are less tolerant of the learning process. DMing is a skill, and you can’t pick up any skill and immediately be good at...

I don’t know that I agree, primarily because while you name the positive examples, I’m not sure what are the examples that tripped the...