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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 9814893" data-attributes="member: 7016699">The point of the rant seemed to be aimed at people who make it sound harder than it is, usually people with products to sell that they purport will make it easier for you. The GM-Advice-Industrial Complex isn't all that, or even all caused by that--there are other causes I can point at that aren't germane or relevant to the point, here. The fact ten-year-olds learn to do it does kinda argue that it's not really as hard as you might come to think if you read about it.I was fairly fortunate, in that I played more than a little before I ever really tried seriously to run anything, though I think I got better once I'd played at more tables--especially in the way of learning some of what I really don't (or at least didn't) like. That said, two of the guys I played with started as GMs, in the early-mid-1980s, when they would have been like ten, so there are people who start out as GMs (and it seems like a reasonable guess those are mostly the guys who end up "forever GMs," but I have neither research nor the interest in doing it to back that up).</blockquote>