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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8150896" data-attributes="member: 87792">... how do you mean? And which version of D&amp;D did you learn on and which do you run now?I'm sorry to hear you find that. As I say this is not my experience at all. DMing I find twice the work and twice the fun. I only really found DMing to be work in the 3.X and (to a lesser extent) 2e eras, but 4e simplified what the DM needed to do drastically and 5e kept it relatively low.Something is going IME either very weirdly at your table or you're exclusively playing 3.X and Pathfinder (1e certainly - I haven't played 2e). One of my fellow RL DMs has mentioned she used to take a dozen hours preparing each three hour session there and it was far too much of a job.As I've mentioned Apocalypse World literally tells the MC to come to the table with nothing prepared. I've mentioned in other threads how my last AW campaign went (an absolute in character trainwreck in the best and most gloriously enjoyable ways for all the players) - but it took me less than half an hour between each four hour session, mostly of checking my notes from the last session on the day of the next. I spent a bit more preparing my last 5e campaignIf you're finding being the DM makes you a dog something is going wrong somewhere. Some of this is down to rules systems and habits those rules systems encourage or make necessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8150896, member: 87792"] ... how do you mean? And which version of D&D did you learn on and which do you run now? I'm sorry to hear you find that. As I say this is not my experience at [I]all[/I]. DMing I find twice the work and twice the fun. I only really found DMing to be work in the 3.X and (to a lesser extent) 2e eras, but 4e simplified what the DM needed to do drastically and 5e kept it relatively low. Something is going IME either very weirdly at your table or you're exclusively playing 3.X and Pathfinder (1e certainly - I haven't played 2e). One of my fellow RL DMs has mentioned she used to take a dozen hours preparing each three hour session there and it was far too much of a job. As I've mentioned Apocalypse World literally tells the MC to come to the table with nothing prepared. I've mentioned in other threads how my last AW campaign went (an absolute in character trainwreck in the best and most gloriously enjoyable ways for all the players) - but it took me less than half an hour between each four hour session, mostly of checking my notes from the last session on the day of the next. I spent a bit more preparing my last 5e campaign If you're finding being the DM makes you a dog something is going wrong somewhere. Some of this is down to rules systems and habits those rules systems encourage or make necessary. [/QUOTE]

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