Some Reflections on Running Brythwin

I am currently 8 sessions into running this campaign for some people on the glog server. It's been eye-opening running games again, and I thought I'd do some reflection on how it's going, to get my thoughts in order. The first thing to say is that I don't consider myself a skilled DM - this is not self-effacement, I've seen really good DMs run games, and I don't have that type of fluency in my own approach. I consider myself a writer and artist, and have spent more than fifteen years developing those practices professionally and in my private life - I'm confident with them, I can trust them completely, I understand that whatever I'm trying to get at with creative work, those two things can get me closer to it. Not so with running games. Why am I doing it? I've been asking this question of myself quite a bit (not because it's making me miserable, because I think the question is interesting), and the answer that I keep swirling around has an odd flavour to me - I think it's because I…