What are you?

[Taneel BrightBlade]

I'm not a very good DM and I love to play but I am almost alway stuck DMing

 

[S'mon]

I'd say I was equally good at both & I enjoy both, though I'm more a GM at heart.

 

[DragonLancer]

I voted for "Other." I love DMing and playing, but as a DM I have a need for control (not as in control freak) that I don't have as a player. That affects how I view my abilities in both, so I'm somewhere in the middle of your options.

 

[D+1]

Had to say "other". I think my skills as DM and player are fairly equal, and though I DM far more often than I play, I really miss being ABLE to play because I DM so much, yet I don't necessarily PREFER either playing or DMing, one over the other. Ideally I would be able to get equal time at both.

 

[PJ-Mason]

I am definitely a DM. I've only had maybe two or three DM's in my gaming "career" that i felt comfortable playing for/with, or that i thought was any good. Most of the time i find myself saying "ugh, you should've done that", or "That was no good. Ouch". Not out loud or anything, that would just make me a jerk. So i usually just DM or beg out. I just don't have fun playing nearly as much as dming is what it comes down to. I don't find that other DM's are usually aren't dedicated enough to keeping track of a game and all its nuances.

I am definitely a player's DM though. I like my campaigns and series to revolve around my players, their histories, and their actions. Which require my players to concentrate and provide solid foundations for their characters. I also like aggressive players who don't just want to sit around and wait for the action to come to them.

Hmmm....thinking about it........maybe i am just an a-hole. There is no option for that, i don't think "Other" would cover it

 

[MonsterMash]

I voted better DM than player, and usually DM, but I do enjoy playing as well. Actually I'm not sure if I'm the best person to judge if I'm better as a DM than Player.

 

[StalkingBlue]

I'd say I was equally good at both & I enjoy both, though I'm more a GM at heart.

Oh man. We're just too alike. That's almost literally what I was going to post.

In a world where one could be only either DM or player, I'd choose to be a DM. Although I know I'd burn out and get cranky and dissatisfied, as I have in the past when not getting a chance to play.

Actually, no. If I were stranded in a world where you had to choose, I might have to embark on the Big Quest for the portal that would pull me through into a world where I could both play and DM and be happy.

 

[Arkhandus]

I'm a misguided kobold that really wants to be lawful good but can only manage lawful neutral with occasional chaotic tendencies. Err, oh, that's not what you meant.

 

[jeffh]

You do realize you're going to get a disproportionate number of DMs, right? That's generally who hangs out at places like this. For example, I'm the main DM in my group and also the only member of it who ever visits ENWorld (unless one of my players who I've encouraged to hit certain parts of this site recently has actually done so).

 

[Alensande]

I am pretty good at both, with the caveat that good players encourage good GMing, and a good GM will help develop good players.

I am lucky in that my significant other is a GM with a similar style to mine, and we are running games simultaneously. So I play in his (a paladin...poor guy ) and he plays in mine (a cleric in 3.5, and a duelist in 7th Sea). Makes for good feelings on all sides