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.
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.
Experienced could go on players who adventures decided to campaigns so run some the forever DM.
Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.
I don’t even like playing all that much and prefer DMing.
NGL DMing is a really special kind of way to play
Whereas the players roleplay one person, you roleplay a bunch
I really dig DMing but I do miss being a player sometimes
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.
I’m getting to play instead of DM for the first time in years and I’m having a great time.
… But I keep thinking about games I want to DM at the same time. It’s a curse.
How about 2 tables ? Thats what I do currently
Never all players but always some players.
I was this lucky. I hope you will be too :)
