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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8198883" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I'm not sure I totally agree.I DO believe that anyone who wants to play RPG's should at least GM one or two sessions in whatever game they play. But, that said, it has been my experience that most people just, to be blunt, aren't cut out to be GM's. Either they are just outright horrible (kind of rare; one of my Players fits this bill and he knows it and accepts it), or the person just doesn't really enjoy it (all but one of my 'current' players...and that player is currently living about 2600km away, so...yeah...).It's nice for a Player to have an idea of what a GM 'does' on the other side of the screen, but, as [USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER] pointed out... not everyone is cut out to be a GM. As I said above, I've found that MOST people aren't cut out for it (skill, desire, or combination thereof). So, to all you Players out there: give it a shot for a session or two. If you like it...GREAT! If you are at the "take it or leave it"...do everyone a favour and 'leave it'. If you think your GM is getting burned out... suggest an on-line get together in an MMO or other co-op video game. Or maybe play a miniature war game, or board game, or CCG, etc. Anything that gets the GM's mind away from the details of GM'ing and lets their brains "unwind" will do, and that doesn't have to be as a Player in an RPG. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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