Our DM was growing tired and it felt like perfect timing because I had this idea for a short campaign I wanted to try and run, so as a group we decided that we’d do a few weeks of one shots, with a new DM each time so we could all get some experience in a short and casual way.
Our existing DM offered to do the first because he wanted to try and set up a quick adventure covering some of the things he’d built for a previous campaign that we as a party had just completely skipped past. “it will take us 5 hours” he said.
That was a year ago. The 5 hour one off is now up to its 40th session, and our “tired” DM keeps finding ways to keep the story going with twists and turns and I no longer believe that he’s bored of DMing.
But it means I’ve had a full year too flesh out my ideas, so when he really is bored of running sessions, I’m feeling more than ready to give it a go.
Same here. I've been a forever DM for decades, and every time I change to be a player I just don't enjoy it as much. DMing is fun and I love being a forever DM.
I hear the same thing echoed from a lot of DMs. Weirdly I don’t really have an itch to play at all. Like ever. Been 20 years or so.
I get to play sometimes because my one group is all DMs so between each chapter someone else does DM a 5 to 6 session adventure. But whenever I play I’d just rather DM instead 🤷🏻♂️
But it’s nice to steal some tricks from fellow DMs and it’s not like I hate playing.
Honestly if this doesn’t happen I would consider finding another group. I’ve tried so hard to get this going in my original group but people just won’t put in the work. Kind of kills my interest in running for them. But my other group we’ve got a good rotation going so when I felt the itch to run something I prioritize them because I know they’re willing to put energy in the game. If the other one peters out then it wasn’t meant to be.
When our forever DM had a kid I ran a side campaign for a while while he figured out how life works with a kid. He played a character a bit like Kenny from South Park so we could just kill him at a moments notice and he could jump over to child care. Then he got the itch and started DMing again.
After his 2nd kid we started switching off. So I run one week and he does it the next. Now we have 2 not-exactly-forever DMs.
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