D&D General Are you a DM?

[Guest User]

You say that, but I see a lot of social media posts asking "I'm thinking about starting my first game as a DM and I'd like some advice".

Which is a shame, as this is a Forum where it is possible to have interesting, DM oriented conversations. Other forums, seem to have developed a "RAW" only mentality which extends to a prohibition on even considering Campaign context in Thread discussions.

I have two players in one of the games I DM, start their own campaigns, with themselves as the DM.

It would be interesting to know if the 5e rule set is encouraging more people to try DM-ing.

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Umbran]

I have been the major GM of my group for... 15+ years.

My last campaign was one session short of completion when covid-lockdowns hit. We just declared it done. I have been on break since - haven't run anything in seven months. I have, however, gotten a chance to play rather more than usual, which has been good - playing in three games (two D&D and one Fate, one of the D&D runs nearly weekly, the other two are occasional.

The stresses of the world these days have been a big drain on my concentration, drive to create, and desire to commit to the responsibility of running a thing regularly. But I'm starting to come around to figure out what format of game I want to run now, and what I want to do in it.

 

[DeviousQuail]

I've been the GM for more sessions than I've been a player. A couple years ago that ratio was lopsided but either I've inspired others or they're sick of my crap because now they all have campaigns they want to run. At this rate I won't be behind the screen again for a year at least.

 

[jgsugden]

The more interesting question might be what percentage of your D&D time in the past 2 years has been DMing.

 

[Stalker0]

Me: Looks at poll

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

 

[Chaosmancer]

I've been a player more than a DM, since the start of Covid and getting involved in some Play-By-Post games, but it used to be the other way around.

 

[R_J_K75]

Me: Looks at poll

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

The one person who's not saying because theyre being "PC".

 

[Lanefan]

The more interesting question might be what percentage of your D&D time in the past 2 years has been DMing.

Pretty much bang-on 50-50 for me.

 

[Yenrak]

I've pretty much been a DM since I started playing. I had three younger brothers and a few friends who loved the game but really wanted to play characters so it fell to me to DM. I loved designing worlds and plots so it worked well.

We had a long campaign based in Greyhawk from, say, 1986 to 1993. Then another from 2000 till around 2005. Started a Realms campaign in 2019 that's still running, albeit largely digitally now because of the plague. I have three of my original players in the current campaign. 44 years of gaming, with long breaks.