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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 4740006" data-attributes="member: 775">Welcome to ENWORLD and Being a DM! Here's another plug for Ray Winniger's articles! Back when I first started DMing, I exclusively created my own adventures simply because I found modules somewhat intimidating to run (but I was also 10 years old). I also was really into world building, and had specific sites and places that I wanted the players to go to--and often times I tried to force them to go there because I didn't want my efforts wasted. One piece of advice that I've seen repeated over the years in various articles and books is: &quot;Start small.&quot;The classic example of this is having a small village, with some ruins nearby. You'll see this in Winniger's article and elsewhere. Another piece of good advice comes from Stephen King that applies to both creative writing and DMing: &quot;Read a lot, and write a lot.&quot;The more you read, the more ideas will get deposited in your brain's &quot;compost heap&quot; and who knows when they'll come to fruition. And the more you write adventures and DM, the better you'll get at both. Oh yeah, and make sure you and you're players are having fun! For advice on how to do this, consult the 4e DMG--which, IMO, contains the best advice out there for running a fun D&amp;D session. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 4740006, member: 775"] Welcome to ENWORLD and Being a DM! Here's another plug for Ray Winniger's articles! Back when I first started DMing, I exclusively created my own adventures simply because I found modules somewhat intimidating to run (but I was also 10 years old). I also was really into world building, and had specific sites and places that I wanted the players to go to--and often times I tried to force them to go there because I didn't want my efforts wasted. One piece of advice that I've seen repeated over the years in various articles and books is: "Start small." The classic example of this is having a small village, with some ruins nearby. You'll see this in Winniger's article and elsewhere. Another piece of good advice comes from Stephen King that applies to both creative writing and DMing: "Read a lot, and write a lot." The more you read, the more ideas will get deposited in your brain's "compost heap" and who knows when they'll come to fruition. And the more you write adventures and DM, the better you'll get at both. Oh yeah, and make sure you and you're players are having fun! For advice on how to do this, consult the 4e DMG--which, IMO, contains the best advice out there for running a fun D&D session. :) [/QUOTE]

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