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Like people have said before me, it sounds like your DM isn't used to teaching beginners, he probably should be dropping hints as to how you should play. Such as telling you that sneaking might be a good thing, instead of just walking right on down or dropping a hint that just maybe you should...

I mostly use fairly small dungeons, with the occasinal medium to large sized ones. Early on especially I go for smaller dungeons, so the PCs have (at least) a slim chance to survive if they want to go through the entire thing immediately.

Much less than I think we'll be able to achieve when prepping. On several occasions I've prepared what I've thought would be fine for an hour or two and then it's taken at least twice that. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but in the last session I DMd (OD&D; we played for about...

I've tried DMing twice over Skype (two different campaigns). The first one died after three (or so) sessions due to us not being used to playing like that and due to the fact that we didn't see the game in front of us. The second one died after six sessions due to RL messing with people. The...

Actually get my group together to play again... it's been SIX MONTHS (with one or two one-shot exceptions). :.-( That and finish some of the old campaigns I've started on... already removed a couple and mixed some together, I think I'm down to three campaigns I'm "working" on now.

I don't really touch on this subject in my fantasy campaigns, except for humans and elves who mostly listen to bards playing on lutes and such. There might be some bells and similar instruments as well. Orcs feel like they should listen to something "gritty" or "dirty". Using logs as drums and...

In my latest campaign I had a few surreal and/or spooky things: - Paintings that seemed to show constant motion. Touching them made your finger feel like it was going through it, despite you seeing the finger on top of the painting. - A sundial that kept going backwards... until someone...