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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kamosa" data-source="post: 1514942" data-attributes="member: 1037">DMing is like the radio active cross between a orchestra conductor, fantasy author and game show host.At some level you are telling your story.  Exploring ideas, plots, moral quandries and interactions thru the eyes of others.  At another level, your helping others tell their stories.  Helping with the backgrounds, challenges and victories of a set of heroes.  I get a lot of joy out of running the game.  I get to help my friends have fun and facilitate a group activity.   At the same time I take a lot of personal pride out of running a game that people want to keep coming back to again and again.   Some of the players in my game have been with me for over 15 years now.  Hey, its an ego boost to have them keep coming back and asking for me to GM them again.For my part I enjoy creating situations that vex the players and make them think creatively.  Nothing tickles me more than designing up a total bastard situation and having the players solve it through good group tactics, good roleplaying and a little creative thought.  I enjoy the combat, the social interactions and the plot weaving that a GM must master to be a good GM.  I enjoy the humor of introducing a good comic relief character into the game.  I enjoy the recounting of the game later on when the players tell their favorite moments in the game and some of my stories make the list.I also enjoy the down time between games.  It makes the morning comute less harsh that I can think about next weeks game during the drive.  I enjoy reading a new book and deciding what I will use from it, or having it spark a clever idea for a challenge.  I even enjoy reading a module and deciding that it is total garbage that I would never let in my game. <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=":)" />We don't have real story tellers in modern society.  GMing allows me to be the bard, the story teller and the chief.   What's not to like about that?</blockquote>

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