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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 1579539" data-attributes="member: 14041">I don't think DMing is for everyone.  If you were playing baseball you wouldn't make everyone take turns being the pitcher, or being the goalie in soccer, right?  Because there are different skill sets to different aspects of the game.  Being DM is one position.  Being different kinds of characters are others.  Not everyone can pull of spellcaster or fighter or what-have-you.Having said that.  In a group of 4 all but 1 of us DM occasionally. Lately its mostly me, but thats OK, I love world building and we are in a long runnign game (for us) that is a homebrewed world that the players all seem to be really attached to.  The 1 person who hasn't is my wife.  The idea of DMing freaks her out.  She has been playing almost as long as I have, but our approaches are completly different.  She feels overwhelmed by all the stuff a DM has to know, and me telling her she can make it up as she goes along doesn't get very far.   I think it would be good for her to DM just once.  But, I also think that she wouldn't enjoy it really.  She would be far to worried about the results and if she was doing everything right.  And, since the rest of us have pleanty of material to DM from, there is no need for her to do it.Yes, DMing takes more work than just playing a PC, but I have players who do as much work on their characters as I do some weeks on the game.  And I enjoy the work.  That is as much fun as the game itself.  For those who think that DMing is a chore that everyone should take a turn at, I wonder if you like being the DM at all, or is it something that you do because you feel you have to just to be able to play?</blockquote>

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