Life of a Wizards of the Coast employee
I thought this was pretty awesome. It’s a nice story about a Wizard of the Coast staffer named Shelly Mazzanoble on being suddenly sumped the role of Dungeon Master. Her story is quite funny though I can sympathize on some sentiments.
I myself DM’d very rarely. I had one long term game which went well. A short that people found fun and another one or two session game that people also enjoyed. However as a newbie DM I had high expectations of myself. People were used to a status quo so it felt like I had to live up to something rather then play for the fun. I still have that sentiment over the years. I think in a large part is that since we have moved to playing online it’s even harder to learn to game master. People have the internet at their tips so often players are yelling at each other to pay attention or sometimes were all just worn out from a days work so focus is not there. I also tend to stay in a particular genre however I am looking for something offbeat and just have fun.
Yeah ok that was totally diverging from the topic. Apologies and back to the internets I go
