The day I will know when it's time to stop being a G.M....

[Lord Death]

Very true.

[BookWyrm]

Bravo, CS. Bravo.

But in the title's particular vein......

The day I will know when it's time to stop being a G.M. is when....

My players stop giving me an arguement about each and every ruling.

My significant other stops checking me when I come home from a late-night session for lipstick smudges, flat-beer stains and the same amount of cash I had in my wallet when I left.

My rulebooks begin to glow with an unearthly aura and start speaking to me in whispered alien tongues.
And my dice start dancing in time with the chanting.

[wolfsgrin]

I'll be done when they pry my dice from my cold dead hands!

that was awesome cs. if i hadnt had my tear ducts ripped out by my wife the last time i played too long with my group, im sure i'd be shedding a few.

[mrloucifer]

Well,again I sit here listening to Skepticism waiting for my fellow gamers to arrive.Another Saturday devoted to our favorite game Rifts. For 13 long years we have been getting together and leaving the real world behind for just a few hours.And for 13 long years i Have been G.m of this fine group.Our characters have been every where together adventuring through good times and bad,celebrating our victory and mourning our fallen.And still..what is it,an hour before the game,and I have my notes before me,cold beer in the fridge a cd in the stereo,candles lit,just waiting for my friends and I still feel like its the first time I ever GM'ed. A tight knot in my stomach that reminds me that I must do exactly what Ive been doing for 13 years.Giving them the best game I can.Horror,suspense,pain ,glory and all that comes with it.

I could not have done it without thier loyalty and willingness to mindtravel.

When this stomach knot goes away and Saturdays become just another day,Yep,I think I'll know when it's time to stop being a DM.

Switch out the beer (its makes me goofy and a sloppy GM) and put AMP in its place and you've just pictured my Sunday afternoon.