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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8467959" data-attributes="member: 18">Being a DM for so long certainly leaves one with certain habits as a player, a mixture of good and bad.I have sympathy for the DM, and try to avoid giving them a hard time.But I can't really stand it when people get the rules wrong (not interpret them, get them wrong), luckily I can usually express that helpfully and point to page numbers and so on.I avoid making spotlight-stealing PCs because I still have the instinct to ensure everyone has a good time.But I always optimize my PCs fairly hard because I want them to be mechanically effective at what they're doing and I'm very aware of stuff that felt powerful and effective from the other side of the screen.I often end up acting as a sort of DM's assistant in 5E, because the DM can offload looking up rules and organising stuff to me a bit.I've also learned that, actually, playing can, at times, be more fun than DMing, and that's made me more selective about what I DM, which has in turn made DMing more fun, at the cost of a few &quot;I don't want to run that anymore&quot; discussions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8467959, member: 18"] Being a DM for so long certainly leaves one with certain habits as a player, a mixture of good and bad. I have sympathy for the DM, and try to avoid giving them a hard time. But I can't really stand it when people get the rules wrong (not interpret them, get them wrong), luckily I can usually express that helpfully and point to page numbers and so on. I avoid making spotlight-stealing PCs because I still have the instinct to ensure everyone has a good time. But I always optimize my PCs fairly hard because I want them to be mechanically effective at what they're doing and I'm very aware of stuff that felt powerful and effective from the other side of the screen. I often end up acting as a sort of DM's assistant in 5E, because the DM can offload looking up rules and organising stuff to me a bit. I've also learned that, actually, playing can, at times, be more fun than DMing, and that's made me more selective about what I DM, which has in turn made DMing more fun, at the cost of a few "I don't want to run that anymore" discussions. [/QUOTE]

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