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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8869858" data-attributes="member: 18">Primarily just because I wanted to.However, whilst I'd DM'd a bit from time to time, I really first became a "full time DM" because I was part of a rebellion against our then-current, and frankly terrible DM, and no-one else wanted to DM (I was the least socially-awkward and most confident kid there, which is kind of funny in retrospect, esp. with my severe ADHD). Maybe if that guy wanted to keep DMing, he shouldn't have tried to make us kill baby orcs, huh? Even us 12-year-old public schoolboys had too much empathy and sense of right-and-wrong for that to fly. The DM even tried the "they're innately evil!" line but we just wouldn't believe it, given they were biological beings and none of us had come across this idea (sounded racist lol), so we took them to a monastery to Illmater so they could raise them. The ex-DM was briefly affronted but then became a player and was perfectly fine, kept playing together until a bit after I left that school.(Interestingly, the logic the DM used was absolutely the same logic Gary Gygax himself used to justify killing women and children of "evil" non-human races. Good thing I didn't find that out until recently, from D&D's perspective, or I think that'd have been the last time I played D&D, and it'd have been WoD, Shadowrun, later Earthdawn and so on from then.)</blockquote>