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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5689496" data-attributes="member: 18701">I'd like to think I turned out to be a good DM because of criticism. My first few DMing sessions back in 2e were horrible. I guess I was so bad that a friend of mine wouldn't even play. He said he didn't like the setting, but I know he didn't like my DMing. It sucked too cause he was a good player and he only played in the very first session. He didn't even give me a chance.I just wasn't confident as DM at the time, I didn't know the rules well enough to run things smoothly, and I may have railroaded a bit. I just didn't really know what I was doing and I threw myself into the DM chair (pressured by the players to hurry and DM). It didn't help that I had only played D&D a year as a player and I was learning the Planescape setting for the first time (which totally confused me).This players refusal to play with me made me try harder to be a good DM. Other players also complained when I made mistakes and I just kept trying to improve. Even to this day, if a player criticizes my DMing, I take the criticism into consideration and think about it. I may not always agree with it, but I do continue to try and improve.Now if we are talking about a bad DM that is not exactly new to DMing, then yeah, I don't think he'll ever change.</blockquote>