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Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 2988238" data-attributes="member: 9734">Not a darn thing.  I don't think a 320 page PHB, 320 page DMG, and whatever the MM is the help they need, however.  The basic game might be a good entry point, and I realize the DMG II attempts to help, but having to buy another book to get help for new DMs might hamper more than help.Hey, newsflash: It has always been a niche hobby, and always will be.  And frankly, I don't care that it is, and don't care if it is ever more than that.  I have no responsibility to anyone to shepherd the growth of the game.Again, it's  a matter of expectations.  The guys at my table aren't there for the ultimate uber super-genius DM running the ultimate RPG experience.  (They would have left the game years ago if that was the case.  <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=":)" /> )  I recall my early days of DMing to be a learning experience, where sometimes I botched it.  Sometimes this screwed the players, sometime it was in the player's favor.  But it was never a "crappy, unrewarding, impossible-to-win campaign" and we never struggled "with unpleasant game sessions for weeks before we "deserve" to have an enjoyable game".  YMMV.Again, I don't see spending half the session (for the new DM/players) flipping through the PHB and DMG to figure out how flanking works ("what?  pick a corner, draw a line, if it intersects?  What?") as being any better.What you are describing sounds like a "one size fits all" solution.  I can't see that ever being the case.</blockquote>

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