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<blockquote data-quote="Aldeon" data-source="post: 6001053" data-attributes="member: 6690450">Cause they're too damn lazy to. It's as simple as that for the people I play with. Out of the group of people I usually play with, being the gamemaster always falls to me or one other member of the group. I usually get burned out on gamemastering after a few months, so at that point I switch places with the other gamemaster so I can be a player.Other regulars of our group? We've got a bunch of guys who won't. It isn't that they don't have the time to-- I know for a fact that some of them have more free time than I do. It isn't a lack of creativity; a lot of the people are way more creative than me, including one member being a pulp writer. They would just rather play instead of GM. If me and the other GM decide we don't want to GM, no game gets played. They are willing to just not play at all rather than take up the role of gamemaster, although they'll make no shortage of complaints about &quot;I'm so bored, when are you going to start up a new game?&quot; and &quot;I really want to play some Dungeons and Dragons right now. I wiiiiiiiish someone would make a game&quot;.Not too long ago during some downtime with no GM, one guy got hyped about the raygun gothic genre (pretty much 50s-60s America with retro-futuristic technology and art deco) and begged me to start a game with this style. After I told him I'm burned out a few (dozen) times, he decided to run it himself. I was so excited, only for him to cancel it because after making the story, he didn't feel like statting out enemies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldeon, post: 6001053, member: 6690450"] Cause they're too damn lazy to. It's as simple as that for the people I play with. Out of the group of people I usually play with, being the gamemaster always falls to me or one other member of the group. I usually get burned out on gamemastering after a few months, so at that point I switch places with the other gamemaster so I can be a player. Other regulars of our group? We've got a bunch of guys who won't. It isn't that they don't have the time to-- I know for a fact that some of them have more free time than I do. It isn't a lack of creativity; a lot of the people are way more creative than me, including one member being a pulp writer. They would just rather play instead of GM. If me and the other GM decide we don't want to GM, no game gets played. They are willing to just not play at all rather than take up the role of gamemaster, although they'll make no shortage of complaints about "I'm so bored, when are you going to start up a new game?" and "I really want to play some Dungeons and Dragons right now. I [I]wiiiiiiiish[/I] someone would make a game". Not too long ago during some downtime with no GM, one guy got hyped about the raygun gothic genre (pretty much 50s-60s America with retro-futuristic technology and art deco) and begged me to start a game with this style. After I told him I'm burned out a few (dozen) times, he decided to run it himself. I was so excited, only for him to cancel it because after making the story, he didn't feel like statting out enemies. [/QUOTE]

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