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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9718317" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I don't personally think the second is a viable path, even if I had the money to do so.I already run a game. (It will be going on temporary hiatus as we just finished up an adventure and one of our longtime players has had some extremely important real-life events to attend to.) I have not found that running my own game achieves even the smallest part of what I want out of playing in a game. For...pretty much the same reason as any other medium out there. Creating things can be fun--sometimes a ton of fun! But it is a radically different experience from experiencing something else.Some creators can create exactly the thing they wish to experience and thus just...enjoy it. Chefs, or architects, for example. But a director who spends two years directing a film isn't going to get the experience out of that film that an ordinary movie-goer is going to get out of that film. An author who writes a book isn't going to get the experience that a regular reader is going to get. They can't. It's just not possible.Telling someone "well if you don't like it, MAKE YOUR OWN" is not just useless, it is actively counter-productive. I don't get the experience I'm seeking by doing the thing you're advising, which I am already doing anyway! Have been for years! That year I spent desperately looking for a game, any game, that really would make me happy? I was GMing that whole time! Once a week, nearly every week, for an entire year.A comedian doesn't get the experience of listening to a bunch of funny jokes. Telling someone who's sick of crass racial humor to start doing stand-up of a different variety doesn't help them in any way. And the same thing goes for GMing.</blockquote>

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