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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1081144" data-attributes="member: 13098">No it isn't and I have been running games since 1980.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But seriously ...Flexor, you are going through burnout right now.  Do the rules have much to do with the burnout?  In your thread, it sounds much more related to player apathy.  But, do the rules also have some impact on this for you?  As I have posted above, I do not think the game is harder on DM's.  I was one of the freaky guys that read all the 1st Ed books cover to cover.  It is also not that unusual for me to use gaming books as before-bed reading.  (And no, this isn't to put me to sleep with all the dry material.  Sometimes it keeps me up later as ideas are generated.  I just like reading DnD source material.  I am a gaming geek.)  However, I have not read any of the 3E books cover to cover.  I hit sections that catch my eye.  There are whole parts of the books that I haven't read.  Yet, I have a pretty good grasp of the rules.  (I am the rules guru in the group I play with.  Though, I try not to be obnoxious about it.)  To me, this seems to indicate that it is easier on the DM than previous editions.</blockquote>