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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9394764" data-attributes="member: 7006">I would probably disagree that complexity is the defining factor in whether someone wants to DM.I would lean more towards people not wanting to be in charge...Not wanting the responsibility of other people's happiness... Fearing they are not creative enough to do a good job... Not wanting to be unable to take a night off... Not want to be the one having to tell all their friends 'No' a lot of the time... Not wanting to play dozens of different characters rather than just one... Not wanting to feel like they need to learn more of the rules... So on and so forth.&nbsp; All those are perfectly legitimate reasons why someone chooses not to DM, and proportion-wise... any of those combined would be more than just because the game is &quot;harder to run than before&quot;.&nbsp; Because the one thing we probably aren't going to see almost ever are those people who did DM 5E14 happily, but now find 5E24 to be a bridge too far and they're giving up the seat.&nbsp; If you were good with DMing 5E14, still DMing 5E24 is not going to be much of an issue for most DMs (if I had to make a prediction.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9394764, member: 7006"] I would probably disagree that complexity is the defining factor in whether someone wants to DM. I would lean more towards people not wanting to be in charge... Not wanting the responsibility of other people's happiness... Fearing they are not creative enough to do a good job... Not wanting to be unable to take a night off... Not want to be the one having to tell all their friends 'No' a lot of the time... Not wanting to play dozens of different characters rather than just one... Not wanting to feel like they need to learn more of the rules... So on and so forth. All those are perfectly legitimate reasons why someone chooses not to DM, and proportion-wise... any of those combined would be more than just because the game is "harder to run than before". Because the one thing we probably aren't going to see almost ever are those people who did DM 5E14 happily, but [I]now[/I] find 5E24 to be a bridge too far and they're giving up the seat. If you were good with DMing 5E14, still DMing 5E24 is not going to be much of an issue for most DMs (if I had to make a prediction.) [/QUOTE]

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