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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robberbaron" data-source="post: 3592488" data-attributes="member: 14771">As my groups DMingest (if you can have winningest, it makes perverse sense to me) DM, I feel that it is my right to enjoy myself. I spend more time than the players in prep (actually, there is one player who probably does more than me but he doesn't get to use a fraction of the stuff he dreams up so it doesn't count) and I actually turn up nearly every week.I haven't put more of my money into D&D (if travelling costs are ignored - I travel further than any of the others) as I only buy the books I need. I have a large number of pdfs but only for the sake of general interest; I wouldn't have bought them. If that makes me a thief if StormRaven's eyes, so be it, I don't care.I did buy a load of Star Wars minis when we were playing it, but got most of them off eBay so not too bad.Thing is, I don't think players generally appreciate the effort it takes to DM. They think they are being so clever with their lame (or non-existent) backstories and stitching up the rest of the party for the sake of 'role-playing' but rarely consider why the DM DMs or how much work he has put in to their fun. At the moment, I am a little tired of DMing. I don't enjoy it, though don't really know why and, after the next adventure, I shall be calling a hiatus in my game until I can figure out what I am unhappy about and how to fix it.Rant over.</blockquote>