I don't get bored. However, I have been frustrated at times - enough to shut down the game for six months or a year.

My players are all old friends, and regard the game sessions as times to drink beer and chat. I've had persistent problems with players making essentially no effort to help run the game, and engaging it frequent off-topic banter in the middle of play. Problem is, the guys who chatter the most are the most enthusiastic about making the effort to play, while the guys who are the most dedicated at the table have difficulty making any kind of time committment to attend game sessions.

For most of my players, RPGs are their 3rd or 4th ranked hobby. That's a problem when we all have young families and very little dedicated leisure time.

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Well I envy you guys. I jaded and fussy, which sounds like a contradiction but it's exactly the way it is, both as a GM and as player (in our group we are all experienced GMs so I get to do a fair bit of both). It's not that our games always suck, they don't, but it's so hit and miss. And it's always so hard. There is no sweet spot, no old reliable game that never fails. If it wasn't for the social aspect, we are friends before gamers, I think we might have given up by now.  

It wasn't always like this. When I first started roleplaying I was so excited about the whole thing, never even stopped to consider the quality of the game, I was just happy to be playing. And no, I was no kid. I got into roleplaying late in life. I had a full time job and a mortgage before long before I ever owned a set of funnily shaped dice.

I think things changed as I got more exposure to GMing. Once you've seen how it works behind the scenes, your perspective changes, or at least it did for me.

I wonder if groups in which there is only one natural GM have it easier.

Gaming and the games themselves never get old.  What tends to get old are the egos and attitudes that fester up after gaming for a while.  Although I bare through it, I find it refreshing to find a new campaign with different faces.

What you do, is you grab the best person from each campaign to form your group, because they probably don't like the egos, either.

It might get old if I ever had a chance to play. I'm living with my racist brother now, so I guess i could download and run RaHoWa....I could even invite CavScout, I bet he'd enjoy that as well.  Eh, THAT would get old to me.

Nope, it's fresh and new most of the time. That's partly because I try to game with lots of new people, so there's always some new idea popping up.

Shav, please don't put out trollbait. It's not like we don't have enough of them.