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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9543687" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I floated it as a trial balloon in private, DM said no; I brought it up for consideration in a roundabout way in &quot;session 0&quot;, nobody bit for the reason Paul Farquhar gave. Given the DM had already said no privately, I didn't feel comfortable making any kind of major discussion of it, as that would be pretty disrespectful.Anything I could theoretically do with 5e I would find better or more interesting with a different system (either 4e, something PbtA, or 13th Age.)I'm not really sure what the intended pitch was then. You were suggesting that I cultivate a group where I am the DM, which is going to necessitate months or, more likely, years of gaming where I exclusively do DMing and thus don't get to play. I would then need to rely on one of those players electing to become DM; I'm not about to offer a group on the transactional idea that one of those players will in any way promise to become a DM for me later. I'm definitely not alone in the &quot;Forever DM&quot; experience, so I'm not really sure why you would anticipate that one of those players would be supremely likely to run a game themselves.I consider it advocacy. I am advocating for the kind of game I would like to see. Given my experience has been &quot;no games and no talking about games&quot; or &quot;no games but at least talking about games with the possibility that it will influence future game design&quot;, I find the latter more engaging.I'm glad of it. We've moved from 5e to a different system (not strictly PbtA, but clearly a descendant thereof.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9543687, member: 6790260"] I floated it as a trial balloon in private, DM said no; I brought it up for consideration in a roundabout way in "session 0", nobody bit for the reason Paul Farquhar gave. Given the DM had already said no privately, I didn't feel comfortable making any kind of major discussion of it, as that would be pretty disrespectful. Anything I could theoretically do with 5e I would find better or more interesting with a different system (either 4e, something PbtA, or 13th Age.) I'm not really sure what the intended pitch was then. You were suggesting that I cultivate a group where I am the DM, which is going to necessitate months or, more likely, years of gaming where I exclusively do DMing and thus don't get to play. I would then need to rely on one of those players [I]electing[/I] to become DM; I'm not about to offer a group on the transactional idea that one of those players will in any way promise to become a DM for me later. I'm [I]definitely[/I] not alone in the "Forever DM" experience, so I'm not really sure why you would anticipate that one of those players would be supremely likely to run a game themselves. I consider it advocacy. I am advocating for the kind of game I would like to see. Given my experience has been "no games and no talking about games" [I]or[/I] "no games but at least talking about games with the possibility that it will influence future game design", I find the latter more engaging. I'm glad of it. We've moved from 5e to a different system (not strictly PbtA, but clearly a descendant thereof.) [/QUOTE]

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