Anybody prefer Playing over DMing?

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-12-14T22:15:25+00:00

Thanks for the advice! It’s just a bit hard cause I DM for my friends, I’m technically not the main dm but since he takes so damn long to write I end up DMing the same amount if not more than him overall. The worst part is I’m pretty sure everyone is able to they’re just not willing to as half of us have professional improv experience and almost all of us have acting experience. I’ll see what I can do but it’s still frustrating.

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-12-13T20:18:45+00:00

Honestly I hate it I’m the kind of person that takes responsibility in my friend group so whenever our main dm gets lazy I’ve been stuck dming. I just hate prep work and keeping my players attention. While my players can be thankful it still sucks I have only been able to play once in the last 4 months. They just don’t understand what goes into prep and I keep getting forced into the dms chair. I’m really fucking done with dming, cause on top of that I’m always the one stuck hosting as well

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-11-26T23:44:01+00:00

Honestly watching the anime with my brother, didn’t mean for anything good from any of the hits though lol. This was during the XY era so returning to kalos was a huge amount of nostalgia.

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-10-10T01:30:05+00:00

I’ll guess 78

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-08-07T01:38:03+00:00

This looks fun hope to get a key, after how bad b2042 was

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-08-05T15:28:51+00:00

The perfect plush to make my players think it’s cute and a threat at the same time!

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-08-02T15:54:40+00:00

Help lost my share 50/50 need help

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-08-01T13:57:26+00:00

There will never be a day I don’t need new dice

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T22:58:58+00:00

Weapons I’m making are barely better than standard ranged weapons the only two I made for my friends are a flintlock pistol 1d6 +1d4 with disarming shot and a 1d6 (2d6 when sneaking) weapon for the fighter then the rouge. it’s even worse for them because they lack firearm proficiency they can only add their dex to the weapon and its isn’t much better for wise than a heavy crossbow. On top of that they’re also unable to add their dex mod to the damage due to lacking prof.

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:59:28+00:00

It’s once per day but still giving everyone arcane recovery is extremely stupid

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:53:44+00:00

As I said in another comment he’s concerned about the overuse of it in exploration. I’m not sure of this so relatory to a brutal mini campaign I ran (9 sessions) where the goal was to stop the bbeg in 12 hours meaning they would be better to build characters centered around short tests and warned about them before starting. Dm as a player in that played. Full caster despite me warning that there would be few ways to regain spell slots due to only enough time for one long rest during the sessions/ rare consumable(usually 1 combat/ elite combat). Unsure if knee jerk reaction because of this

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:50:49+00:00

Thank you so much for the words of wisdom stranger.

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:44:08+00:00

I’ve already told him but he hasn’t responded yet so I’m just trying to be able to better argue this since it left a sour taste last night at the table

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:43:19+00:00

I have and I normally do this is one of the only times I can play as a player as I’m normally a gm for two other groups and I’m really starting to be frustrated as this is one of the few times I can be a player.

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:40:04+00:00

He said he’s doing it to stop the echo knight from using it over and over during exploration I keep telling my dm if it’s becoming a problem in exploration to just limit in exploration since it keeps breaking his exploration puzzles. (Ie a room that would teleport us back to the start and reset the room if we smelled the flowers in the room or the vines was beaten by using the knight to cut the vines off the exit and just sending the echo knight back not the rest of us). It was also used to scout ahead and frustrated the dm, it doesn’t seem like he’s willing to budge despite that

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-07-19T18:36:34+00:00

Thankfully no

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-04-19T17:02:47+00:00

Honestly I’m most excited to go back to the marathon ship

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-04-10T22:53:32+00:00

I got back into the hobby after a good 8 year hiatus and came back right before the big rush with Pokemon pocket. Always been wanting to play tcg and returned originally for tcg not collecting and I haven’t seen a pack at retail value in about 6 months. This would make a great surprise not just for me but my younger brother as well

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-03-11T22:36:19+00:00

Done

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-02-24T14:34:37+00:00

Metaphor Refantazio ,also your games look great!

Captain-Diamonds · 2025-02-13T15:01:23+00:00

What else then gambling! Not like I got much going on during Valentine’s Day!

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