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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 1080185" data-attributes="member: 1013">After the third person told me, "This would probably be more fun if you were enthuasastic", and related comments I realized that running the game had become a chore, not just 3e but D&D, or any other game, in general.  When a good friend, who STILL cannot remember what most spells do, even when they are cast on him every single goddamn session, I nearly told him to get away from the table and leave.   After the new guy accidentally bounced a dice off a miniature I went off on him.   That sucks as he seems to like playing even though it was only his second session with us.  But I'm so tired of spending hours painting figures only to have them laugh as they hit them with dice all night long and chip them.   At least five times I had to bite my tongue to stop from ripping into a player who asked me a question or forgot a rule.   I finally got to use my Vampire miniature that I bought just to represent the Blackguard Vampire that they were to encounter and I wanted to make a reoccuring villian.   I forgot half of his abilities during the game, same with the trog cleric, and found I didn't care even if it turned what should have been a pivotal encounter into a joke.  When a player would ask me if something would work, I just said, "sure, whatever" even when I knew they were reading the rules wrong.   I'm tired of idiots asking me how something works when they have played the game for two damn years!   I'm tired of players who have played the damn game for that long not knowing half their damn abilities and where anything is on the character sheets.   I've hit the wall, Dm'ing has quit being fun and my chances of one of the other guys running a game is non existant.  One said he would run a GURPS Cyberpunk game awhile back, but that never happened  I've ran this campaign for two years and never once had the chance to play.  I'm going to a local con next month just so I can finally play 3e for the first time.  One guy is too busy playing Everquest to do anything game related.  He can't remember the name of the major city they have been to a million times, but can probably sprout any kind of moronic fact relating the the Everquest world.   Nobody buys ANYTHING for the game, well one of the group bought a PHB,  and everyone always shows up late.  Nobody puts even the slightest interest in getting into the game world.   If I can find a new group I'll probably tell them I don't want to play D&D with them anymore the way I feel now.   I'm trying to describe a critical point in the adventure, and one guy keeps saying, "lets keep goign until we find something to kill".  I wanted to kill his PC right there and started thinking of just killing them all and closing the book and saying, "GAME OVER". These are my best friends, and I have game with a few of them for a lot of years.   But last night I nearly blew up on all of them and may have given the new guy a bad taste of what D&D is about, but I guess I really didn't care.  Whew that was a lot of rambling bile to spout but it made me feel better.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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