International GM’s Day 2025

The event first began in December 2002 after a post was published on the forum of popular British-owned RPG website EN World (originally known as “Eric Noah’s Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News” site).

In the now popular post, a user named Spunkrat (later changed to Heathen72) wrote:

It’s clear from another thread I was reading that many GM’s out there don’t feel appreciated, and clearer still that many players don’t appreciate the amount of work their GM’s are putting into their games. So what I propose is GM’S DAY GM’s day is the day the gaming community would celebrate all the hard work our GM’s do for us. It would be like Mother’s day or Father’s day, and give us all the chance to pamper our GM. Maybe we could run a game for them as well!

In the forum discussion, the date of March 4th was chosen, which coincidentally, would later mark the anniversary of the death of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax. The idea of International Game Master’s Day was later championed by a number of individuals within the TTRPG community, including Mark Clover of Creative Mountain Games and Steve Jackson Games.