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>write a novel that gets you dozens of hours of runtime
>pretend your players' backstories are interesting and relevant and find a way to integrate them into the novel
>tediously narrate said novel, which you have written yourself
>struggle to make your players with vidya brain do anything proactively
>struggle to "balance" encounters because you have to give the illusion of difficulty so your players can get a false sense of accomplishment
>struggle to track stupidly bloated stats for everything
>remember to give "muh spotlight" even though the players make themselves irrelevant
>have the game die out before anything you were looking forward to anyway because people overstep with their scheduling, can't keep long-term interests, or because the new vidya/show/current thing came out
5e DMs should be on a 200k payroll by WOTC themselves.

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