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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraith Form" data-source="post: 2039855" data-attributes="member: 10789">Thank you!I have the Illuminati book. The first dozen times I read it, it didn't seem to help much. I'll give it a thirteenth go. Eventually I'd like to STOP reading stuff and START running the campaign. I've sat on my a$$ for several years, reading about "how to be a great DM" and collecting modules/adventures/Dungeon mags to find the "perfect" adventure (which really isn't out there). It's all for nothing if I don't get off my keister, find one or two people that are moderately mature and intelligent, and start a darn game! Mostly I'm just scared--I'm afraid it's not going to be perfect and that the players are going to be bored, so I tell myself that I'll read this book or follow the advice of that article and start a game later....Err, can you tell that confidence isn't a strong point for me?  <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=":)" />It doesn't help that I'm finnicky as hell, too. I think most of the MM baddies are stupid, so every module I read that starts in with the "kobolds...blah blah blah" or "goblins...yak yak" I immediately dismiss as goofy or childish. I grew up on R. E. Howard's Conan, so I generally find that human opponents are preferrable to ogres and orcs.  Hobbits, err, halflings, elves and dwarves are becoming a bit tedious, too.</blockquote>

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