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Ahh, im jealous you managed to get that going. I've got a few mates who I semi-regularly play board games with and we've always wanted to get a TRPG going, but we lack a DM. None of us are keen!
The closest we've got have been the Escape The Dark Castle/Sector games, which have an RPG vibe, but very much on-rails.
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Can you have a rolling DM with some spurious reason why the stand in DM's normal character can't play this part? Sleeping potion mistakenly drunk instead of a swig of mead / knocked out by freak giant spider accident / went for a pee in the night and got a bit lost...
You can play D&D on your own right, so you must be able to act as DM and your own charcter too? Just don't take the piss with "I'll just check under this rock... oh I've found the supersword of invincible strength" type scenarios? That way you could rotate DM and still play your own characters. Must be possible.
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Gloomhaven is a kind of board game/RPG hybrid, but there are GM-less systems that might work - Reddit has a big ol' list of GM-less systems, maybe you/your mates would enjoy one of those.
I've wanted to play Alice is Missing since it came out but haven't found the time for setting a group up!
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The RPG sub-reddit has a pretty big list of games that don't need a GM, never looked deep into it nyself but might be worth looking at if you're not set on a specific setting/ruleset.
edit: refresh before posting or 'as bothwell says'.
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I was wondering if a thread like this existed! A few friends and I started playing D&D virtually during lock down. I never thought it was something I'd get in to but it was sort of the highlight of the week for a while. We still play occasionally but haven't quite managed to replicate the magic of a bunch of grown men getting absolutely steaming on a Thursday afternoon and trying to wind our DM up as much as possible.