This article popped up in my newsfeed. Not sure what it portends. Might be relevant to the whole Benn Riggs hullabaloo.
The short of it:
https://pandaily.com/hasbro-seeks-to-sell-ip-dnd-and-has-had-preliminary-contact-with-tencent/
yeah, it seems that the person who ends up GMing the most is the one most dedicated to "playing" the game. In this particular context, I'm using "playing" in the general sense of the word, not just being a player.
My character Dweeny the Dwarf getting killed* by the carrion crawler outside the ruined walls of Castle Mistamere.
*The DM, my brother, retconned the encounter and I went on to face a Giant Bee, Kobolds, et al.