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I feel your pain. This is my pet hate too. I think it started in Pathfinder. Dipped slightly in 5e but resurfaced when getting into 5e...

I feel fortunate that the group I'm running for currently doesn't seem to have any social referee issues. I've only had to really step...

Exactly this for me! A mild panic sets in if I feel I have not prepped enough and yet I have been extremely fortunate as the sessions...

I was going to say the social referee bit but @Deset Gled covered it. Lil surprised not to see more folks mentioning it.

Reading through a published adventurer. I don’t know why, but I always find that to be such a chore. The worst is reading through keyed...

For me, the short of it, I enjoy DMing when I want to, I do not enjoy DMing when I feel I have to. And when I talk about DMing, it's...

I generally prefer GMing to being just a player. There are significant bits that are effort consuming, but often enjoyable...

I hate juggling enemy and npc stat blocks, and most issues of game complexity for me are basically issues of whether the stat block is...

Learning new rules is big thing i don't like. When i was in HS or Uni, learning new medium to high crunch game was fun. Now it's chore i...

One thing that keeps me from DMing more often, is the awareness of how easily I might get trapped into a time sink in the...

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...