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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 4510617" data-attributes="member: 44184">I have 2 solid players and am looking for more. I had more, but they were friends who had just popped in to play a bit and that was about it. Stupid real-life stuff.I know that my players are having fun, though. How do I know? Smiles. There's a lot of laughter and joy. Then again, I'm neigh unto a god compared to the game we came from.Our previous DM didn't realize that he was crappy. He never looked for smiles. He didn't care when we constantly expressed frustration. The game and plot? Well, we refer to him as the Conductor. Apparently, he once ran a game with a large gaming group that annoyed the players so much, they told him they were done and started making up characters for a different game. He kept asking them what their characters were doing.For me, my flaw is that I don't really prepare. Anything. I have a lot of ideas and directions, and I make that stuff up as I go along. It's obvious, and I've told the players that I do it, but our plot is still advancing.Why don't I plan? Well, I never know what they're going to do. I've never been a planned. I'm a teacher, and I teach spontaneously, rather than really planning what I'm going to do. That can occasionally be flaw as a teacher and DM.</blockquote>