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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Mage" data-source="post: 1037928" data-attributes="member: 12666">I'm having a somewhat similar experience, not just with games in particular, but campaigns as well.Just about everyone is my gaming group wants to DM, and each one of them pulls the "I've been wanting to run a game for months" thing to try to get their game run. While it's true for most everyone, we called one of our gamer's bluff when he couldn't remember his world's name accurately.I hate it when these things happen, and it bothers me especially because of how little time our gaming group has left to game (we're all in high school, and coming soon is our senior year...after that, everyone's either moving away or going to college or getting full time jobs, which means not enough time to game). One guy is running a Spycraft game and wants to run a Star Trek game, one guy is running a Star Wars game, one guy wants to run a D&D game, one guy wants to run a homebrew game (using practically every other RPG system under the sun), and I want to continue my D&D campaign. It gets very frustrating because people take it very seriously, throw fits, and often stop gaming for a couple of weeks when they can't run their game. I also think it's bad in the respect that their ideas are good but are squandered by pressure and resentment. But these things just don't happen in gaming. I see them happen in bands, between artists, and in other creative fields (I think someone has said this before, but only 99.9% of all scripts ever written actually get made into movies). People take it as rejection and see it as favortism of others, causing them to despise one another.A friend of mine wants me to be the DM of his group, but right now there's no one in yet. I might just start gaming with him and start playing online, instead of frequenting my FLGS. I hate to do that, but it seems that the pressure keeps adding up. The guy that wants to run a Star Trek game (which is Chuck, if you know my other posts) is buying all of the Star Trek books in the assumption that everyone else wants to eagerly play in it (which we don't. While I like a RPG system that doesn't center around combat, Star Trek doesn't appeal to me. No offense <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=":)" /> ). I've decided to quit buying book after book, just the stuff that appeals to me. It doesn't bother me if I don't ever use them, but then again, with that single gamer,  I can always run whatever I want. I found it truely frustrating to get a lot of gaming systems and never being able to use them.I'm sorry for your circumstances, buzz, and there are too many games to play out there. If only we had more time to play them all... Oh well. Maybe everything will get better.Cheers!</blockquote>

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