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Message: <blockquote data-quote="molepunch" data-source="post: 5751565" data-attributes="member: 6683467">Hi all,A little background: as far as I've remembered, in all my gaming groups since high school I tend to be the default DM. I'm passionate about the game, but I wouldn't call myself someone who loves to DM. I sometimes equate the position as being the stage manager of a production, the goalkeeper in football--you have to really love the position/role to do it again and again. But since I hate playing "RP-lite" games either, I usually would end up DMing.Lately, I've been getting fed up with my friends and my players. After a few sessions of RP-less and RP-glossover scenes, I expressed my disappointment in the campaign and told them that I'm not interested to keep DMing a boardgame. Was I in the wrong? Am I just burning out? I'm not sure why I was able to put up with such sessions before.Is it me and my style? I was told I was asking too much, and not everyone is able to RP so I should really not have such a requirement for my games. But I refuse to DM a "video game" where players joke about killing NPCs and harmless villagers, and sometimes even following through. It really upsets me that I keep spending hours and hours to craft a story and adventure for them when it seems completely unnecessary as they seem to only regard me as battle AI sometimes.Can anyone help? Perhaps I just plain suck and my games are stupid.Can a DM of a successful group give me some insight or advice? I have one session more with this group before I want to properly consider abandoning ship.Thanks in advance for any criticisms or feedback.</blockquote>

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