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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gold Roger" data-source="post: 6092118" data-attributes="member: 33904">I think the hardest lesson is "read your players", because you can't ever just cross as learned and move, you can only get better.By this I mean the neccesarity of knowing your players expectations and preferences and building a coherent game from them and your own ideas. Even when you play with the same people for years, know them well out of game, and your group is homogenic in playstyle, people always change ever so slightly and might not even notice their own expectations changed. Sure you can just ask your players what they want, but the image you get is, in my experience, incomplete and momentary at best. It can help with, but never replace, understanding the people at your table.And that's the hard part. Understanding people isn't easy, even for a social genius. I guess realising that you constantly need to think about the people you play with at all, is one of the toughest lessons a new DM has to learn.</blockquote>