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<blockquote data-quote="Thyrkill" data-source="post: 1669204" data-attributes="member: 2289"><p>Hi All,</p><p></p><p>Let me start with giving you a little background of my gaming and GMing experience. I started playing AD&D in 1981 at the tender age of 11 and from there fell headlong into the Role-Playing world. Most of my friends didn't like to run the games so I became the default DM, and ran games (AD&D, Boot Hill, Star Frontiers, Gamma World, Villains and Vigilantes, Bushido, Sar Wars, MERP, Call of Cthulhu, and Runequest) all the way through high school. I then started playing in a very serious, weekly AD&D game that lasted for about 5 years and included a difficult transition from 1e to 2e. Then real life and graduating from college asserted itself and I , like many others, fell out of Role-Playing. Then 3e arrived and with it my passion for gaming returned. I have been running a Forgotten Realms game since then (at least twice a month) for a consistant group of players.</p><p></p><p>I consider myself a decent DM with a lot of experience behind the screen. I run a fun (at least according to my players <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ), story driven game, with a "loose and not too rules heavy" style. But I feel that I am not improving and have not improved as a DM for a while now. And I want to change that. Having read many story hours on this site and many interesting threads (MerricB's recent "Back in the Day" inspired me to post), I see some amazingly creative and excellent DM's out there, and I aspire to be one of them. </p><p></p><p>I am not looking for a "DMing for Dummies" solution but would rather get some advice, tips, and inspiration from this community on how to improve as a DM.</p><p></p><p>Thanks very much in advance,</p><p></p><p>Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thyrkill, post: 1669204, member: 2289"] Hi All, Let me start with giving you a little background of my gaming and GMing experience. I started playing AD&D in 1981 at the tender age of 11 and from there fell headlong into the Role-Playing world. Most of my friends didn't like to run the games so I became the default DM, and ran games (AD&D, Boot Hill, Star Frontiers, Gamma World, Villains and Vigilantes, Bushido, Sar Wars, MERP, Call of Cthulhu, and Runequest) all the way through high school. I then started playing in a very serious, weekly AD&D game that lasted for about 5 years and included a difficult transition from 1e to 2e. Then real life and graduating from college asserted itself and I , like many others, fell out of Role-Playing. Then 3e arrived and with it my passion for gaming returned. I have been running a Forgotten Realms game since then (at least twice a month) for a consistant group of players. I consider myself a decent DM with a lot of experience behind the screen. I run a fun (at least according to my players :) ), story driven game, with a "loose and not too rules heavy" style. But I feel that I am not improving and have not improved as a DM for a while now. And I want to change that. Having read many story hours on this site and many interesting threads (MerricB's recent "Back in the Day" inspired me to post), I see some amazingly creative and excellent DM's out there, and I aspire to be one of them. I am not looking for a "DMing for Dummies" solution but would rather get some advice, tips, and inspiration from this community on how to improve as a DM. Thanks very much in advance, Matt [/QUOTE]
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