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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6797988" data-attributes="member: 4937">Oh absolutely. And I think on a smaller level its what keeps us old GMs going, even when going to a session feels more like going to work than going someplace to have fun.  We are all hoping that our campaign will become something magical, and that the play will turn a corner, and the PC's will shine and have unforgettable moments of awesome, that the encounters will feel like something out good Summer Blockbuster, and the RP will be like something out of an Academy Award nominee.But of course most days, neither we nor our players live up to our high ambitions and fantasies.  Most days it feels like we make crap most of the time, even when the players are laughing and cutting up, and dice are clattering on the table fast and furious.   We as GM live for those few moments of shining awesome, or in hope of them.That's one of the reasons that I loved The Gamers 2, and think its by far the best movie ever made about RPing.  Because as a GM, I could so feel for the poor put upon GM, what he was going through and what he saw in his head that no one else could see, but he just couldn't seem to share.   And then at the end, when every gets to experience how beautiful the vision of it could be, and how much - despite themselves - the players contributed to that beauty.That's like Heaven to me.</blockquote>