Do you DM?

[jcfiala]

I'm often DMing, and at the moment I'm exclusively DMing.

But sometimes I'm not DMing at all, so it varies...

 

[Nail]

I voted: "Yes, always", because that comes closest to the truth. I was both a player and a DM in a past group, but 90% of the time (and currently) I DM.

The poll option "sometimes" kinda implies a 50%/50% split to me.

 

[Li Shenron]

I voted "always" because I almost always have a campaign active all the time, in which I am the DM.

But if you count the time spent between playing and DMing, it's probably 50-50.

 

[Nail]

Maybe the poll could be re-worded: "How many times (complete gaming sessions) have you DMed in the past year?"

For me, the number is 28, FWIW.

 

[Wombat]

"Always" fits better than "Sometimes".

For all the groups I have played in, I would say I GM 75% of the time; with my current group, that number is more like 90%.

 

[kenobi65]

Yeah, I'm an almost always that also went with always because sometimes doesn't come close. Sorry.

Ditto.

 

[kenobi65]

The poll option "sometimes" kinda implies a 50%/50% split to me.

Heh...to me, "sometimes" implies less than 50%. (Then again, I *write* surveys for a living.)

I would have probably made the scale something like:
Yes, always
Yes, most of the time (or, maybe, "Yes, usually")
Yes, sometimes
Yes, rarely
No

 

[Reynard]

Heh...to me, "sometimes" implies less than 50%. (Then again, I *write* surveys for a living.)

I would have probably made the scale something like:
Yes, always
Yes, most of the time (or, maybe, "Yes, usually")
Yes, sometimes
Yes, rarely
No

I know, I know. I forgot the option between sometimes and always. Sheesh.

 

[Aaron L]

I'm sort of the secondary DM of the group. However, out of the the 5 people in our group, 4 of us DM from time to time and have our own homebrew worlds and preferred settings. Back before people started moving away and we had 10 people in the group, 8 out of the 10 of us were DMs at one time or another and we each had our own homebrew settings.


Essentially, our gaming groups have always been made up almost entirely of DMs, who would occasionally trade off on which game we'd play every some many sessions, usually after the completion of a story arch or campaign plot point was resolved, or a dungeon was cleared, or the like. The current main DM of my group, however, has always been the "main" DM of all of us, and we played his game more than all of the others combined.


But having a group composed almost exclusively of other DMs is I guess the big reason why I've never encountered the likes of the horror stories about people abusing rules or creating havoc with the game and so on. We all now what it's like to DM and don't want to give him a hard time, we want the game to be fun for the DM too, and we don't want to exploit possible loopholes in the system to make a character that will take spotlight time away from the other players. I think that the best groups are always composed of people who both play and DM, because when you know what it's like on both sides of the screen you're far less likely to give the DM grief, or to try to abuse the rules for your own benefit, because DMing brings "gaming maturity" in a sense.

 

[was]

about 50% of the time