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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 4511176" data-attributes="member: 50821">I'm the best there is at what I do...Whatever that is. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I know when I'm not doing my best, I know when I'm having off days and I know when I could be better most of the time. I will even go so far as to say I know why I fail when I fail. That said... I recently gamed with an unfamiliar group of players in a somewhat unusual environment but I was running a game I knew well. It failed miserably. I thought it was my lack of preperation (though I'd been gearing up for weeks), the fact that I didn't know the players likes and dislikes (though that never stopped me before) and/or the fact that we were playing in a public forum (though this too I've done and well). In the end, I just didn't do a good job because I was holding back. I was nervous. Unsure. I'm not sure why but I was.  A week or two after we unofficially disbanded the group I ran a game system I've never tried with members of my old group and it went over really well. I mentioned my poor performance to them and they looked surprised. One of them reminded me that they (my old group) had assembled from three different states just to game with me. I felt better but couldn't stop periodically analyzing the games that went bad. In the 30+ years I've been gaming I can remember the 9 sessions that failed. I go over them again and again. I take my fun in general and my GMing specifically very seriously. I'm not that good at that many things. I'm not the guy you want to do your taxes, knit a sweater, fix your car or play shortstop. I'm a good cook, a very good swimmer, I'm great with dogs and I GM really well.  In the immortal words of The Shoveler, "It's who I am. It's what I do." So to answer the question, I know I am a good GM, maybe even a Great GM. This may come off as egotisical or pompous but anyone who knows me personally knows the truth. I simply love my craft and take great pride in it. I also know that when I stink, I stink royally and I work hard to fix it so I don't stink next time.  AD"Never Give Up, Never Surrender!"</blockquote>

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