DM turn PC woes

[Garnet Schist]

I'm not the best DM.

I'll be the first to admit that.
But after 4-5 months of DMing, I wanted to play a PC. That is where I have my fun, honestly.

So when another PC, who's been playing since Second Edition, steps up to DM, I had decent expectations of fun.

Today was the first day. Oi.

Just a few highlights:
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The first 5 minutes was me and another PC firing Ballistas at an oncoming army of 5 or so men with a catapult. I showed him in the book where Ballistas did 3d6 or so damage, whereas he changed it from Ballistas to "sorta big crossbows" which did 1d12 damage.

The boss was his old PC.

10 more minutes since he forgot to update his PC, after a week of asking him to get everything ready. So he sat down and asked how many spells he would get for being 7th level and how many Hit Points he'd have.

2 minutes to Hold person and Coup De Gra'd his (N)PC boss in the first 2 rounds.

End Game
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I kept wanting to jump back into the DM seat and pull some random creature out of my head for us to fight. To do something to help the game, which to me desperately needed it.

Have you guys ever been in a situation like this? Where you want to be PC, but notice how you probably are the only one who can really DM well? Enough to actually run a game?

How do you deal with this?

 

[Azure Trance]

"With great power comes great responsibility."

Or something. Though I feel for ya man.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Or something. Though I feel for ya man.

I'll echo that...I feel for you. Sometimes I think about trying to DM a game to give my fearless leader a break. But I'd just suck at it and he wouldn't have any fun anyway. Just know that players love a good DM.

 

[Mark]

Most players are only a few hours of prep work away from being a decent DM...

 

[Mista Collins]

I just started DMing about 7 months ago. Since then I have not fully enjoyed being a PC. I think Dming is far better than being a PC. Technically you get to be as many PCs as you want (but we prefer to call the NPCs).

I understand where you come from though. I have felt the same way many times. But then again, it was the DMs first time at trying to be a DM.

Patience is all you need.