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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derulbaskul" data-source="post: 4883659" data-attributes="member: 1581">This is the best advice.Nearly 30 years ago one of my friends in high school introduced me to D&D and he subsequently DMed. He was one of the worst DMs ever: while he could be incredibly creative in so many ways, he hated learning rules or for players to shine (or for players to learn rules and seek to apply them!).In many ways he sounds like the DM you have here. My guy, with whom I remain friends to this day, didn't believe in recovering spells when you were in a dungeon ("there is no way you could concentrate"), owning the DMG ("I've got the screen"), a successful saving throw necessarily equal a successful saving throw ("no, because you rolled the number required the poison just paralyses you instead of killing you"), wizards memorising/preparing their preferred spells (he rolled randomly for the spells a PC wizard had!) etc.... His other DMing peccadilloes were similar to those you're describing here.So, I learnt to DM. Simple as that.Your guy also sounds like my guy in that he is mired in a particular style which probably reflects parts of his personality that simply will never change. Why fight it? Run your own games! <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=":)" /></blockquote>