Why did you start DMing?

[ForceUser]

The instant I played in my first D&D game in 9th grade, I knew that I wanted to do more than play an elf ranger. I wanted to do it all. So I offered to help the DM run the campaign, and with another friend we quickly built a world together and took turns DMing the same group. After D&D got boring I started GMing supers RPGs (Marvel and TMNT), and after a long RPG-less drought in my late teens/early twenties, I retook the reins and have been DMing ever since--2E, 2.5E, 3E, 3.5E. And I'm still not tired of it.

 

[dave_o]

The instant I played in my first D&D game in 9th grade, I knew that I wanted to do more than play an elf ranger. I wanted to do it all. So I offered to help the DM run the campaign, and with another friend we quickly built a world together and took turns DMing the same group. After D&D got boring I started GMing supers RPGs (Marvel and TMNT), and after a long RPG-less drought in my late teens/early twenties, I retook the reins and have been DMing ever since--2E, 2.5E, 3E, 3.5E. And I'm still not tired of it.

Oh not tired of it huh then why don't you run a San Diego game.

 

[ForceUser]

Oh not tired of it huh then why don't you run a San Diego game.

Actually, I'm running three. I am blessed with having more players than I know what to do with. Sorry man.

 

[shilsen]

The DM in the first group I joined wanted to stop DMing and run a PC, and nobody else was willing or able to DM. So I stepped in, all of three months after I first played the game.

Ever since, I've noticed that in all of my groups, I join as a player and end up as the DM (currently running campaigns in two groups I joined as a player). I just joined Mallus' group as a player, and if that happens in that game, I will just have to kill him.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Because I was never completely satisfied with the campaigns I was playing in. I figured that the only way I could be satisfied is if I ran a game the way I thought it should be run. Now if only I could develop multiple personality disorder I could then play in a game run exactlly the way I like it.

 

[DragonLancer]

I started DMing almost full time because I found I enjoyed it more than playing. I do play still, and enjoy it, but its not as enjoyable for me as DMing a game.

 

[diaglo]

I had no fellow gamers, so I DM'ed and forced non-gamers to play. I was desperate, what can I say.

ditto.

it was the 70's mang.

 

[Dark Dragon]

It was about time for me to DM...roughly one year after I joined a group (which, by the way, still exists, after over 14 years of gaming. The actual campaign lasts roughly for 8 years now and has become epic). Normally, the DM hands the job over to a player when he has finished his story. So everybody in the group becomes a DM from time to time.

Later, I'm the only DM who tried to set up high-level to epic campaigns. So the choice was to start with new characters after ca. level 17 or to let me DM and go beyond level 20...

 

[eris404]

In the beginning, it was because I was the kid with the books.

But now, I love being able to DM; I love coming up with the plot, the foes, the supporting cast. I love talking in fake accents and making funny noises (ask the players in my group about the badger noise). I love pretty much everything about it....

...except drawing out areas on a battle map. I'm terrible at that. I'm embarrassingly bad.

 

[francisca]

What about you?

Meglomania, mostly.