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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mishihari Lord" data-source="post: 1669781" data-attributes="member: 128"><p>I was in the same boat as you.  Started DMing when I was 10 (1980) and DM'ed almost exclusively till I was 18.  My players told me I was great, so I wasn't too worried about my skills.  Then I went to college and started playing in other peoples' games and I was amazed at how much I learned.  I wouldn't say that the other DMs were neccesarily better than me, but they had a lot of tricks, techniques, and approaches that I had never seen before that made the game more fun for me.  I ended up adopting a lot of the ones I really liked for my own game.  So that's what I would recommend:  get involved in some other people's games.  Not only can you learn from them, sitting on the other side of the screen does good things for your perspective.  Oh, and read some story hours.  They're great for ideas to steal and new ways to play the game.  My favorites are Sepulchrave's and Sagiro's, so that would be my suggestion where to start, but there are a lot of other really great SHs as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>