31 Memes for Dungeon Masters Who Just Want Everyone to Show Up on Time

Running a D&D campaign is basically an unpaid part-time job. You spend hours crafting the perfect world, designing maps, balancing encounters, and writing lore so deep it could fill a trilogy. And then? Half your players cancel ten minutes before the session because someone's "dog ate their dice."

These 31 memes are for the true heroes of tabletop gaming - the Dungeon Masters who've learned to expect chaos long before the dice ever roll. The ones who've rescheduled the same session four times, rewritten their story arcs to accommodate missing players, and still show up every week with snacks, enthusiasm, and emotional damage.

Being a DM isn't about control. It's about survival. It's smiling while your party ignores the main plot for three hours to start a tavern band. It's watching your carefully balanced boss get obliterated in one turn because someone rolled a natural 20 with divine smite. And above all, it's knowing deep down that the real monster in any campaign is the group calendar.

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