Not really! I love being a DM. But then unlike my two friends I wasn’t the regular DM weekly for 12 years. So there’s that.
For forever DMs out there. Do you ever get to play?
Do you take regular breaks?
How does DMing work for you?
And thanks. I see you.
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Let's see. I started as DM in 92, after the group I was a player in fell apart.
From then, it was 99 before I had a chance to play as a player again. However! It was the first time someone ran my home brew system other than me, so it was a double pleasure. It was cool as fuck to see my best friend build his own world around the same mechanics and ideas we'd used with me as GM
After that, it was, I think 2003? A friend ran a white wolf game series. We did Vampire, werewolf, and changeling (or whatever the faery system was called). That lasted maybe six months though, the dude running it was a flake.
That's it, that's the sum total of play time I've had as a player in thirty odd years lol.
I've gotten my fix in video games off and on. D&d online, neverwinter there for a while, replays of Baldur's gate and 2, that weird superhero MMORPG. I'd play Baldur's gate 3, but I don't have the income to upgrade my hardware. That's usually good enough tbh.
I've thought about finding an online group to join, but I'm not super reliable these days. My parents are aging, I've got a kid, so I can't do regularly scheduled play reliably. That's a big ask for a group to put up with.
Thing is, I fucking love running a game. The world building, the planning of sessions amd campaigns, all the minutia of it just makes me happy. I have NPC enemies built up in five or six game systems that probably won't ever get used, but I have fun making them up.
When I don't have a game going, I write instead.
What's your Internet connection like?
I've been using GeForce Now for Baldur's Gate 3 and it's been impressively awesome on a fiber connection.
Playing on a lightweight laptop with no dedicated graphics card with max settings for $19.99/mo.
I'd only sub while I had something I was actively playing, but probably the cheapest way to get to play on a 4080, there's zero lag in my case, and I'm not investing into a depreciating asset.
It might be a good way to play without breaking the bank on upgrading a rig, as long as your Internet is good enough you stream 4k video from streaming services.
Connection is fine when the weather is right lol. But if I had twenty bucks a month to spare, I could put it into an envelope for hardware.
I had a little spare, but we got a chicken. Fucking disability income is poverty level.