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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 2921527" data-attributes="member: 1154">Keep in mind that this thread is far from representative of the hobby as a whole. ENWorld attracts far more GMs than it does players, and the players it does attract are the sorts that really get into the game and would go looking online for a forum to talk about it...There's only one person I know in two games (one I run, one I play in) who is on ENWorld, and that's because I found him here. <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=":)" />That said, I would much rather play. I love coming up with characters and just the general fact that players have vastly more reward compared to the effort they put in to things. Yeah, I'm a lazy bastard. Unfortunately, I very rarely get to play. In fact, this game I'm in now is the first time I've had the opportunity to play in someone else's campaign in a couple years.I wouldn't want to give up running games entirely, but if the opportunity arose where I'd get to play regularly for a while I'd totally take it and take a vacation from GMing.On the Pirate Cat scale, I'd say I'm 2:8, although that's largely because of burnout... if I played more, I could see myself swinging down to a 4:6 or even 5:5.Oh, and just to address the original question (why so many don't want to DM), I think it's pretty obvious. A DM has to be a rules lawyer, a mathematician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a writer, a teacher, well-prepared and on top of it all working with players is like herding cats.A player just has to show up (and half the time the bastards can't do that right either).</blockquote>

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