Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9288880" data-attributes="member: 7044459">Matt Colville mentioned once in a video he thought it was weird how hesitant people are to get into DMing. He said when he started out he and many of his other friends were really eager to get behind the screen.I can relate to both sides.. After just a few sessions I wanted to try running a game. I started playing in the mid 2000's so we didn't really have D&amp;D YouTube, or actual play podcasts. Acquisitions Inc. may have been running around that time but I wasn't aware of it. No one I played with was either. At the same time though my first time running a game went really poorly, and I was afraid to do it again.. So I can totally understand why people would be scared. Especially now that so many examples are available of people like Chris Perkins or Matt Mercer running games and setting this really high bar for quality. For me, I knew like three DMs, and they were all just normal people who made mistakes and forgot rules like everyone else. Still, you'd think the desire to play would outweigh that fear. That's what happened to me any way. Some friends wanted to play, and I have been really wanting to play for years without being able to get a group together, so I jumped at the chance to run, even though I'd never done it successfully before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Meech17, post: 9288880, member: 7044459"] Matt Colville mentioned once in a video he thought it was weird how hesitant people are to get into DMing. He said when he started out he and many of his other friends were really eager to get behind the screen. I can relate to both sides.. After just a few sessions I wanted to try running a game. I started playing in the mid 2000's so we didn't really have D&D YouTube, or actual play podcasts. Acquisitions Inc. may have been running around that time but I wasn't aware of it. No one I played with was either. At the same time though my first time running a game went really poorly, and I was afraid to do it again.. So I can totally understand why people would be scared. Especially now that so many examples are available of people like Chris Perkins or Matt Mercer running games and setting this really high bar for quality. For me, I knew like three DMs, and they were all just normal people who made mistakes and forgot rules like everyone else. Still, you'd think the desire to play would outweigh that fear. That's what happened to me any way. Some friends wanted to play, and I have been really wanting to play for years without being able to get a group together, so I jumped at the chance to run, even though I'd never done it successfully before. [/QUOTE]

Verification