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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8106781" data-attributes="member: 944">Not playing or DMing right now do to the Covid 19&nbsp; issue but I'm looking forward to getting back in the proverbial&nbsp; saddle. Now&nbsp; I have not DM'd 5E just yet as players and groups are limited in my area and the group seems to prefer Monster of the Week or other&nbsp; games to D&amp;D . DM/GM a bunch of other stuff though.Now this being a forum for fairly serious D&amp;D players I'm not that surprised that nearly every response was yes although in the past,&nbsp; it was far more common for only a person or two in any group to ever DM. We see this eluded to in Knights of the Dinner Table where there was a kind of firewall in the two roles. It was never quite that intense IRL&nbsp; but many people did not wish to DM as they didn't want the hassle and responsibility and there did seem to be a hail fellow DM well met subculture, I kind of miss it as somewhere along the way, this changed.&nbsp;I've no idea why , maybe the Internet or software but since the 2000's there have been a lot more DM's. The good side of this is variety and fewer people have to be &quot;forever the DM/never the player&quot; but downside there are a lot more mediocre DM's and more importantly people who lack the patience to enjoy someone else's campaign narrative for any length of time.This even correcting for real life/ work/adulthood and so on has lead to shorter less rich campaigns in my opinion at least. Now this might be my area or groups but this has made for a lot more low tier D&amp;D games, never leveling up much, hardly getting to use cool items and powers which frankly sucks.Why bother with D&amp;D if you can't kick monster butt and take on the high level baddies?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ace, post: 8106781, member: 944"] Not playing or DMing right now do to the Covid 19 issue but I'm looking forward to getting back in the proverbial saddle. Now I have not DM'd 5E just yet as players and groups are limited in my area and the group seems to prefer Monster of the Week or other games to D&D . DM/GM a bunch of other stuff though. Now this being a forum for fairly serious D&D players I'm not that surprised that nearly every response was yes although in the past, it was far more common for only a person or two in any group to ever DM. We see this eluded to in Knights of the Dinner Table where there was a kind of firewall in the two roles. It was never quite that intense IRL but many people did not wish to DM as they didn't want the hassle and responsibility and there did seem to be a hail fellow DM well met subculture, I kind of miss it as somewhere along the way, this changed. I've no idea why , maybe the Internet or software but since the 2000's there have been a lot more DM's. The good side of this is variety and fewer people have to be "forever the DM/never the player" but downside there are a lot more mediocre DM's and more importantly people who lack the patience to enjoy someone else's campaign narrative for any length of time. This even correcting for real life/ work/adulthood and so on has lead to shorter less rich campaigns in my opinion at least. Now this might be my area or groups but this has made for a lot more low tier D&D games, never leveling up much, hardly getting to use cool items and powers which frankly sucks. Why bother with D&D if you can't kick monster butt and take on the high level baddies? [/QUOTE]

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