My Dark DMing Secret

[the_gneech]

Okay, it's not that dark. And it's also not that secret. But here it is anyway:

I don't want to be the DM.

I mean, I do sometimes, sure. I've been a DM fairly regularly since 1981 or so, so I must get something out of it. I even have a Gamemastering Credo. But the thing is, the reason I'm usually the DM is not because that's what I want out of

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[melchar]

I completely sympathize. I've been ref'ing since 1973 - longer than many of my players have been -alive- - and until recently [about 5 years ago], I never got to play. I have 2 very stable gaming groups [a Saturday & a Sunday group] - reffing 2 systems.

And over time, one of the Sunday gamers decided he wanted to ref. [Yay!] So he became my apprentice [say that like Emperor Palpatine] - and began reffing his 2nd ed AD&D game once every 4 gaming sessions. It was great! So I got to play in his game.

Then Pathfinder came around and a Saturday gamer decided that he would run some of the Pathfinder modules. Hurray again. So Friday nights, we get together for Pathfinder.

So ... 46 years of gaming - and I get to play now, almost as much as I ref. [All it took was mentoring a new ref - and learning a new game system. ^_^]