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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7919988" data-attributes="member: 6785785">But they are all choices. Taking notes or doing massive amounts of prep are choices that a DM makes. If these are enjoyable to the DM, then I wouldn’t suggest changing it for that DM.I’m not as concerned about decreasing the workload of experienced DMs as I am with letting potential new DMs know that it doesn’t have to be as complex as many claim. I also think that a DM asking a player to do initiative (or whatever task) isn’t asking a lot. It’s asking the player to take over one task of many that the DM typically handles. Some players may not be suited for a given task...that’s fine. But I’d be surprised if there wasn’t one player present that wouldn’t mind doing it. Bottom line, I don’t think that the perception that DMing is significantly more difficult than playing is very helpful. I do think more people would try it. I’m not saying it’s for everyone....some folks simply won’t like it, and that’s fine. But if you polled players on reasons why they don’t DM, I’m reasonably sure that “I think it’s too hard” or “I’m afraid I won’t do a good job” would be pretty common answers.</blockquote>