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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balgus" data-source="post: 467103" data-attributes="member: 8113">It's not easy being DM- but here are some tips...1)don't plan EVERYTHING out beforehand. Just have a clear picture in your mind what you plan on happening and let your players make decisions.2) Number your encounters/traps/rooms/monster.  Then place each one a notecard in numerical number. Each encounter has all the essential stats (monster stat block, DC,etc) and all you have to do is flip through them when the players get into X room.  3)there is no shame in running a storebought campaign.  Many DMs find it hard to squeeze out teh time to write up a whole adventure campaign.  So why try.  Buyone, read it over a couple times and make out the notecards.  4)rule 0 is your friend.  If you are ever in doubt- just make sometihng up on the fly- just to keep the game going.  If you find out you were wrong later- apologise.  But don't bog down the fun with arguments with players about rules.5)never name your monsters.  Instead describe them.  You will find that a lot of people have comitted to memory the MM, MoF and other creatures compendium.  If you announce that it is a Troll, they will know his weakness is fire/acid.  Instead, say it is a 7 ft tall green humanoid with long pointy nose.  Most players would know- but some won't.have fun...<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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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