D&D General Are you a DM?

[Maxperson]

Most gamers don't use forums and I suspect many use more conventional social media like Facebook. In my own group ranging age 18-50+ with up to 12 in the entire phone tree think i am the only poster here on a regular basis and there is at least one other who was here for some time.

Morus has said that the age demographics here mirror WotC's, so there's that.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

Morus has said that the age demographics here mirror WotC's, so there's that.

Presumably the age demographics of DMs mirror that of Players. So, not surprising.

 

[Campbell]

YMMV, but I found 4e very DM-unfriendly. I loved it as a player, but trying to DM it, I felt a lot of pressure to stay within very rigidly prescribed guidelines. It’s probably partly because I was new to DMing at the time - I’m sure if I DMed a 4e game now I would feel a lot more confident running it and probably do a better job. But by comparison, 5e made me as a DM feel much more empowered. I say this as someone who still has a lot of love for 4e.

My experience has pretty much been the opposite. I feel like when running 4e, B/X, Stars Without Number, PF2, Apocalypse World, or Blades in the Dark I have all these tools to react to what the players have their characters do. When running 5e I felt alone in the wilderness and it was deeply unpleasant.

 

[the Jester]

Yes. I mostly dm, though I've been playing in a few games lately as well. Seeing how a classic cleric/fighter/magic-user multiclass works in 5e with one pc (so far so good, level 4) and trying out a rogue in the other (I love tactical options, and Cunning Action is absolutely the most tactical option for low level pcs).

 

[Stalker0]

I don't know how even one troll has not come in and ruined the perfect poll yet, this is so bizarre.

 

[ART!]

I've run D&D games on and off since the late '70s, and specifically have run 5E for a total of maybe 2 years of weekly games since January of 2017.

So YES.

 

[Weiley31]

Me: Looks at poll

Also Me: Um...is anyone on Enworld not a DM?

Meeeeeeeeee!!!!

But that's probably only cuz everytime I go "okay, time to start coming up with stuff" and then five mins later I'm "okay I'll start doing that next week."


Which is probably due to a combination of things. Although, yesterday I started jotting terms down for a 5E "Doom" esque game that I would like to run.

 

[Weiley31]

For the last 15 years, I've been DMing in one group, playing in another... but I rarely get to play what I want - I end up running the games I want to play :/

So 50/50 overall, but for D&D it's probably well over 50% DM by now.

This is why I want to DM cuz I have so many house rules that my 5E games are technically "pimped out" and I like it better that way.

My regular group plays by the rules mostly so it all balances outish in the end.

 

[Myrhdraak]

Only DMs so far!??! There must be an opportunity for an Advanced D&D 5e Player's Handbook that gives the classic D&D classes more player choice and options for character optimization at each level. Money to be made for the one that goes first!!!

 

[Tormyr]

Should we wait till there are more data points just to make sure?