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The only thing I dislike is that I never get to have a night off and just play.

I like pretty much everything about DM’ing. Prep work can be fun, and running the game even more so. About the only thing I don’t...

Very much agree. Its gotten to the point, I dont know if its age, patience, mental bandwidth, whatever, where the biggest hurdle by far...

IMNSHO, being a social referee can become more exhausting than being a game referee. Making sure quieter people don't get steamrolled by...

For me, it's a bit of the anxiety as above. It's less about my content and more just committing to being "on" rather than playing a...

Pre game nerves, I also get them. Even after I had ran the same group through over 100 sessions I would still be worried maybe what I...

New games do that for me. The most recent new game I ran for my friends was Pirate Borg over the holiday break for a somewhat rare...

I tend to run campaigns in arcs of a few levels and find that after a while I start to burn out on ideas to keep going with the current...

The thing I probably most dislike about GMing... ...is all the people online invested in claiming you're doing it wrong, for any value...

I get you on immediate anxiety. Still.happens at cons for me sometimes (not so much "home games"). If there is a part about GMing --...

I'll get like this before a game. I'm often second guessing myself and wondering if my players are having fun. I don't think I ever...

I think I may have made this point back at the time in a similar way. I think they care about things that affect them. They aren’t going...

Doing encounter map/digital busywork.

Of my 11 D&D players across 3 groups. Two of them were away of the OGL issue. Though it wasn’t a topic of conversation and wouldn’t have...

3 years later and in my social circle of gamers, no one even knows OGL debacle was a thing. Nor do they specially care about it. And...