Why are some people so afraid to run games?I bought a beginners box for Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, on a whim when I was visiting a comic shop around 2012 or 2013 and had my first ttrpg Experience the following weekend as a GM.Since then, my players and I had a great time and most of them started running games on their own. So why the fuck do I see so many idiots online, mystifying the job of a GM? It should be easier than ever to run games today (yes even online three out of four games are totally fine, if you filter out the obvious morons).
Being a GM is easy, being good GM is not.So you're left with people that have the confidence or people who lack any self-reflection.I'll let you be the judge which group you fall into.
Socially retarded young men who are afraid of making themselves emotionally vulnerable in front of their friends by roleplaying NPCs or directing a narrative.
>>96471203>Why do some people consider GMing hard?>Why are some people so afraid to run games?Cite 3 examples of each.Also, why do some people consider this hard to understand?
>>96471227>Being a GM is easy, being good GM is not.Just avoid being a sperg, and playing with obvious spergs and you're almost guaranteed to have an alright session. The rest is having a feel for game structure and pacing. Those can only be acquired by playing. Nonetheless the majority of your games are going to be fine even if you haven't mastered those.If anything, just be aware of dead ends.
>why the fuck do I see so many idiots online, mystifying the job of a GM? The 2024 D&D DM Guide mystifies it, reminder this is the first and only book people read on the subject, if any
>>96471344Haven't read that shit. What does it say?
>>96471349That the point of the game is to simulate an actual play show like Critical Role (conversely the PHB tells players to learn to play from those), that your job as a DM is to make your players happy by casting Detect Thoughts and coming up with character arcs for their characters, that you have to be a fair referee and simultaneously to ignore rolls and game mechanics when they don't make for a good storytl;dr: loads of nonsense, often contradicting itselfCaptcha: DM04K
>>96471203that picture infuriates me. Howie needs to be executed
