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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8664851" data-attributes="member: 4937">I mean I've ran weekly open tables at the local FGS as well, and had people driving up to 90 miles to come to those games.&nbsp; I understand how huge the unmet demand for GMs is, and the value of introducing people to the game.&nbsp; The fact that people were driving that far for a chance to play games that I considered casual one shots and juvenile hack-n-slash I think is evidence of that huge unmet demand. But on the other hand, while not all of the people that showed up to an open table were toxic, none of them really made me want to game with them either.&nbsp; And when I have advertised for players, well... I learned not to do that after a while.And while I've been in convention games where everyone at that table I would have been willing to game with again, I've been at tables where I wouldn't have wished players at the table on people who hated me.I do sympathize.&nbsp; My own daughter's GM has gone off to college and she also prefers to play and is not eager to GM.&nbsp; But while I've done a lot of gaming in my life, I rarely get to play and certainly don't play as much as I want to.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do enjoy GMing... a lot, but it also at the same time annoys me that I have to GM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8664851, member: 4937"] I mean I've ran weekly open tables at the local FGS as well, and had people driving up to 90 miles to come to those games. I understand how huge the unmet demand for GMs is, and the value of introducing people to the game. The fact that people were driving that far for a chance to play games that I considered casual one shots and juvenile hack-n-slash I think is evidence of that huge unmet demand. But on the other hand, while not all of the people that showed up to an open table were toxic, none of them really made me want to game with them either. And when I have advertised for players, well... I learned not to do that after a while. And while I've been in convention games where everyone at that table I would have been willing to game with again, I've been at tables where I wouldn't have wished players at the table on people who hated me. I do sympathize. My own daughter's GM has gone off to college and she also prefers to play and is not eager to GM. But while I've done a lot of gaming in my life, I rarely get to play and certainly don't play as much as I want to. I do enjoy GMing... a lot, but it also at the same time annoys me that I have to GM. [/QUOTE]

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