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<blockquote data-quote="Gahnomen" data-source="post: 2687643" data-attributes="member: 19133">I think I'm a good DM, though relatively new in the game (only five years experience or so, nothing compared to a lot of folks here). My players all say that they enjoy the game, and I'm almost never the one to initiate play, so they seem eager to play.I know the rules well and have a good grasp of coming up with &quot;crunch&quot; of my own when a judgement call is needed. Usually my judgement calls turns out to be actual rules when we eventually revise the rulings.Beyond that though, I'm a very disorganized person and could do with a lot more structure to the chaos that goes behind the DM screen. Common quote: &quot;I KNOW it's here somewhere..&quot;I don't prepare much either, 2-3 hours or so for around 10-12 hours of gametime. I have never accurately planned anything beyond the scope of the next session, though I always have a general idea of what I want to happen. I really enjoy winging it, and I can squeeze out a few hours of playtime with just half a page of scribbled notes and keywords.I toss out tons of major events, plothooks and looming threats with the intention that the players won't have time for even half of them, and that I can fall back on something from a few sessions earlier if I suddenly come up short.I'm not as Rat Bastardly as I would like to be, but I'm working on that&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Of course, the fact that I view myself as a good DM might be indicative of the opposite, if one is to follow the trend of this thread.. I think there might simply be a lot of perfectionists on this board though&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gahnomen, post: 2687643, member: 19133"] I think I'm a good DM, though relatively new in the game (only five years experience or so, nothing compared to a lot of folks here). My players all say that they enjoy the game, and I'm almost never the one to initiate play, so they seem eager to play. I know the rules well and have a good grasp of coming up with "crunch" of my own when a judgement call is needed. Usually my judgement calls turns out to be actual rules when we eventually revise the rulings. Beyond that though, I'm a very disorganized person and could do with a lot more structure to the chaos that goes behind the DM screen. Common quote: "I KNOW it's here somewhere.." I don't prepare much either, 2-3 hours or so for around 10-12 hours of gametime. I have never accurately planned anything beyond the scope of the next session, though I always have a general idea of what I want to happen. I really enjoy winging it, and I can squeeze out a few hours of playtime with just half a page of scribbled notes and keywords. I toss out tons of major events, plothooks and looming threats with the intention that the players won't have time for even half of them, and that I can fall back on something from a few sessions earlier if I suddenly come up short. I'm not as Rat Bastardly as I would like to be, but I'm working on that :] Of course, the fact that I view myself as a good DM might be indicative of the opposite, if one is to follow the trend of this thread.. I think there might simply be a lot of perfectionists on this board though ;) [/QUOTE]

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