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<blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 2684484" data-attributes="member: 17691">I've been DMing for most of my gaming career (yeah, calling it a career does seem odd but strangely accurate I think) of 15 years. I think I used to be a great DM when I first started simply because I put more energy and thought into the game than most DMs my players were used to playing with at the time. I used to get many awed players who liberally offered complements to me about my games.As most players I game with are nearing or passing through their thirties though I believe the general level of maturity and commitment amongst my friends towards gaming has caught up to me. Now many of my players competently run their own campaigns. Nowadays I seem to get as much negative criticism as I do compliments. I've taken to keeping transcripts of the negative emails I've received over the years. I suspect that I may have let my early success go to my head and don't put in as much effort as I should to be truly great and I feel bad about it. It's hard to get motivated to improve though while dealing with lots of negative feedback.This has led me to keep doubting myself and even to ask whether I should be DMing at all. I'm constantly second guessing myself, my style and story ideas. I even started up a thread here a while back asking for people's feedback concerning a plot development in my campaign to see if people though I had acted appropriately: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109045" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109045</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ambrus, post: 2684484, member: 17691"] I've been DMing for most of my gaming career (yeah, calling it a career does seem odd but strangely accurate I think) of 15 years. I think I used to be a great DM when I first started simply because I put more energy and thought into the game than most DMs my players were used to playing with at the time. I used to get many awed players who liberally offered complements to me about my games. As most players I game with are nearing or passing through their thirties though I believe the general level of maturity and commitment amongst my friends towards gaming has caught up to me. Now many of my players competently run their own campaigns. Nowadays I seem to get as much negative criticism as I do compliments. I've taken to keeping transcripts of the negative emails I've received over the years. I suspect that I may have let my early success go to my head and don't put in as much effort as I should to be truly great and I feel bad about it. It's hard to get motivated to improve though while dealing with lots of negative feedback. This has led me to keep doubting myself and even to ask whether I should be DMing at all. I'm constantly second guessing myself, my style and story ideas. I even started up a thread here a while back asking for people's feedback concerning a plot development in my campaign to see if people though I had acted appropriately: [url]http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109045[/url] [/QUOTE]

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