BRUH

I reblogged this.

Mandalorians quickly figured out that Jedi mostly view blaster fire as “fun lightsaber practice”.

the mandalorians:

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

Stuck.

Basically it’s a takedown of how formulaic horror movies tend to be. As it goes on, you can see the shadowy agents manipulating circumstances, and even the actions of the main characters, in order to make things play out closer to the genre cliches. Near the end, a character even breaks down the structure of the ritual and how the victims all fall into various archetypes, as well as the very specific type of person the “final girl” needs to be in order to be allowed to survive the ordeal, among other things.

So, I fully understand that I’ll never have as much fun DMing as I would being a player. Like, if you don’t want to be DM, you’ll never enjoy it as much as the players. And no one ever wants to DM—at least that I’ve met (and judging from the Internet, that’s true for most people).

Think about it. A DM (when they really want to pull out all the stops and wow the table) will work upwards of 12 hours a week, sometimes more (usually on top of whatever life they have on an everyday basis) crafting encounters, and maps, and NPCs, and story hooks, ect. etc. ad nauseum… Only for players to cancel last minute or bumble-fuck around the entire session—not paying attention to anything—and then passively whine about how they don’t know where the story’s going or what they’re doing. Although they probably don’t mean it offensively, they ‘bout to catch these hands when that slutty cliche Tief opens her mouth again. (And by “catch these hands,” I mean of course “smited by the invisible god of the table”)

My party has forcefully elected me as DM (hopefully not permanently) because “[I’m] such a good writer and storyteller. We can’t do what you do.”

But more importantly, DMing creates it’s own unique joy that you can’t get from just playing.  Some people LIKE spending hours preparing for their sessions.  Crafting unique challenges and worlds is fun!  Running a successful session gives you a powerful rush!  Watching your players react to what you’ve built is immensely satisfying.