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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6307071" data-attributes="member: 66434">There is quite a bit of DMing advice to be found, much of it solid, some of it not so much. The best piece of advice I have for prospective DMs is to stop worrying about getting everything right and just run some games. Like a great many other activities, just diving in and doing it is the best solution. I see a great many parallel issues between running games and miniature painting. In this day and age, with instantaneous communication via internet and hordes of wonderful knowledgeable people, very accessible its so easy to fall into the trap of what I like to call everprep. The law of everprep says that there is wealth of information out there just waiting, and if you are dilligent enough to consume it all before attempting your endeavor then it is sure to be a smashing success first time out. It doesn't work by the way.<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=":)" />Advice, support, and resources are very nice things but direct experience is still the best teacher. I mentioned the similarity to miniature painting because I have experienced it firsthand with regard to trying new techniques. I found myself putting off trying them because there was just one more tutorial to look up, one more cool how-to video to watch. It was all informative and entertaining but fairly meaningless until I had actually slapped on some paint to see it in action. Dungeon Mastering as a fine art is no different. Advice only goes so far. Not all of it is even of value depending on your situation. My advice then is to run a game for your friends before stepping on that everprep treadmill. It might be great, it might kinda suck, but it will be practial experience that has personal value to you. Once you have a few games experience, all the advice and suggestions you get will make more sense because you will have been there and done that.</blockquote>

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