#gm problems

Truly warms my heart when a DM presents players with an innocent kid who is also a McGuffin destined to serve the needs of the BBEG and the most expedient way to save the world is for the kid to die, and players go to dangerous, life-threatening extremes to avoid doing that. Not that I'm speaking from experience, or that I did that to players one time, and the outcome was hilariously similar. It's just. Nice. 🥲

The new Thing that my players like to do to me is cast speak with animals and then try to talk to as many animals as they can before the spell ends to watch me rapidly come up with character voices for said animals. It’s like a weird little guy generator. They just keep pushing the button to get more weird little guys. It’s fun but I’m using up some of my Best Voices on animals they only talk to for two minutes.

So I play DM and I am the forever GM of my group and oh good god the worst part isn't keeping notes... which I should do. It isn't creating good villain's or quests. It isn't fixing the Parties fuck ups or trying to figure out where to make the story go. No the problem seems so benign as its scheduling. Scheduling s the worst and it makes me want to go bash my head into a wall.