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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3286673" data-attributes="member: 16574">We've currently got 9 members in our group. 4 us have have already taken turns as DM, at least one more will eventually (as soon as he finishes writing up the various adventures he's been working on for ages). The other 4 players are all "newbies" who'd never played D&D before this group, and maybe eventually one or more of them will want to take a turn as DM too, but probably not anytime soon.No one has been banned from DMing. We had one guy who had a "forced hiatus" for a couple months because we were all bored with his adventure, but he's come back since then (and is, in fact, our current DM) and things are running much more smoothly now.I don't think DMing necessarily makes someone a better player; if anything I think it's the opposite -- players who are also DMs in my experience are much more concerned with the rules (and second-guessing the DM's interpretations thereof) and much more prone to metagame thinking (as in "he wouldn't throw this type of encounter at us unless he expected us to do thus and such..."), both of which IMO are very annoying habits. I do, however, think that playing a character makes someone a better DM.</blockquote>