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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 1514842" data-attributes="member: 5473">Wow - that's a loaded question.  Probably worthy of another thread here on EN World.  If you post another thread with that in the subject line, I'm sure you will get a lot of responses - probably more than you can handle!I love being a DM.  I like the "story" aspect.  I really enjoy doing things like taking a character's backstory and weaving it into my overall plot.  I really enjoy throwing surprises at the characters so the players say, "Wow, I didn't know that you remembered that about my character!".I also get a lot of weird satisfaction out of taking individual adventures from different companies and written in completely different styles and finding common threads that tie everything together.  To date in my current campaign, I've used a Basic D&D module from 1984 (updated to 3e), a Necromancer 3e adventure, three free online adventures from the Wizards Site, a chapter from "Book of Challenges", a free mini-adventure that someone posted here on EN World a few years ago, and now Monte Cook's Banewarrens.  I tied all of the adventures together by reading ahead and knowing where I was going, so that as the group goes through the Banewarrens, they'll find clues that I dropped to them 3 years ago during their very first adventure.  I really like doing that kind of stuff.  It's a lot of work.  A ton.  Lots of research, reading, preparation, memorization.  But, in the end it's all very gratifying.  In what other hobby do you get to create and populate a world, and then interact with other people to tell a story?  Bottomline, it's a lot of fun.  It's very different from being a player.  I really enjoy both, actually.  I say give it a shot.  The rules will come.  Get the basics down (combat, movement, skills) and you can pretty much just figure out the rest as you go along.  Yeah, you'll make a ton of mistakes at first, but no one will get hurt.  It's a game, afterall.  Believe me, if you spend more time on EN World, you'll get lots of friendly advice, tips, suggestions, and the like.</blockquote>

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