Anyone else here rather not play but does like to DM? venty

[Ace]

Sorry about the grammar impared title but I wasn't sure I could get the point across in the alotted space


Here my situation -- there are 3 or 4 games that I know about open but I am utterly unwilling to play either for reasons of the system (mutated 3x D&D) setting (Streetfighter) or just plain control freak GMs

I seem to have this issue come up a lot in my area --

it is bad enough that the pool of players in my group is sketchy -- of the 7 of us 4 want to DM ! we can meat once a week -- twice occasionally -- and everyone want long term games -- its frustrating -- by the time anything decent gets run it will be D&D 4.5
no one I know wants to play stuff that interests me -- No one runs Buffy, Mutants and Masterminds, GURPS or a very versitile D&D game --

Instead I get quack like Champions, Mutated D&D and Streetfighter -- bah

I can't even find a decent game of White Wolf new system

Its frustrating -- too many actors -- not enough audience I guess

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Its frustrating -- too many actors -- not enough audience I guess

We almost had that problem. The good news is that not all of us can make every game. So there was a "no hard feelings" decision and some of us won't make it to every one.

Why not check out the "Gamers Seeking Gamers" forum and see if you can start a Buffy group? Or do something similar on RPG.net (because they have less d20 and more other stuff)

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Too many DMs is a problem? Wow, I haven't heard that around here.

How about you all take turns on a round-robin style. Everyone runs a four-session game of their favorite RPG. You all take turns sucking up the systems that you hate because you eventually get to the ones you love?

 

[Darkness]

I'd rather not play. I like entertaining people and it's easier for me when I DM.

Besides, I'm the only really good DM I have access to IRL.

 

[scourger]

I've had a similar dilemma. Wait a while. The passage of time will present solutions. If your expereince is like mine, the solutions may not be the ones you would have chosen; but they will present. Meanwhile, do whatever is best for you.

 

[Breakdaddy]

I really dont enjoy playing nearly as much as running a game. I have been known to do it, on occassion, but it is rare indeed. The good news is that my group of 6 would rather play than GM, so it works out quite nicely.

 

[Mercule]

I enjoy playing, but I prefer to GM.

The only game that I absolutely, positively want to play in at some point is Vampire (either V:tM or V:tR). I've got a major vampire fetish and picked up one of the first copies of V:tM sold in my town on principle. I swore I'd never run it until someone had GMed it.

I finally gave up a few years later and ran the game. Loved it, but still haven't had a chance to play it as I've never found a WoD GM who a) had an opening, b) didn't mutilate the snot out of the setting/system, and c) had even a vaguely similar concept of the setting to mine. *sigh*

 

[Steel_Wind]

I only DM. I have not played any RPG seriously in about 18 years.

There was a recent Dungoncraft article by Monte Cook in Dungone that observed that as the DM - when the session ends and people go home - the DM is the only one who continues to keep on playing. Monte was right.

The DM is always thinking about and preparing the campaign for the next session(s) to come.

If you love puttering about on the computer, making maps, designing encounters, dungeons or city settings, your own homebrew, new monsters or magic items, NPCs, story arcs...

The list is endless. And its all of these things which I have come to enjoy the most. Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoy actually DMing the session - but it's the between session stuff where I get to work on my campaign that is the big pay off for me.

Playing an RPG is more of an activity really. DMing a campaign world, otoh, is a hobby.

 

[Belen]

No problem in our area. We have gamers out the wazoo!

 

[Insight]

I'd rather not play. I like entertaining people and it's easier for me when I DM.

Besides, I'm the only really good DM I have access to IRL.

LOL! I used to feel the very same way. I've checked my ego, though, and let the others in my group GM. Turns out they're not bad at all. You should consider the round-robin approach someone mentioned. It works very well with a certain kind of group... like mine!