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<blockquote data-quote="Cerubus Dark" data-source="post: 1932000" data-attributes="member: 3386"><p>Mark to answer your question</p><p>I started DMing for a small group of friends when I was 14, I am now 27 (so it has been more than 10 years behind my DM shield). I have tried to be a player but I tend to get bored quickly with it as I am a story-teller / winger style DM and the only other DM's in my area are lead the party by the nose or else types and I can't play in that kind of game since I get bored with not being able to change the story as a hero. I could never see the point of playing if there was no larger picture to mess with. </p><p></p><p>My small group of players (8 - 10 players) has been bugging me to restart my campaign since the last game was nearly 3 months ago. I recently ended a long running homebrew campaign setting with the destruction of the whole world. The players deceided to help the villains along this path, although they did not know it but should have seen the major clues that would have been smacked across their faces. (my favorite a PC was a cleric of Heriunous(SP) and the NPC Cleric was a worshiper of Hextor who did not hide that fact, yet they traded and gave each other items.) Don't get me wrong it has been fun, but a long and painful road. </p><p></p><p>I don't really want to change systems as I like the fantasy setting of D&D (tend to not allow much from books I don't own / approve of), Not certain what else there is you might want to know</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cerubus Dark, post: 1932000, member: 3386"] Mark to answer your question I started DMing for a small group of friends when I was 14, I am now 27 (so it has been more than 10 years behind my DM shield). I have tried to be a player but I tend to get bored quickly with it as I am a story-teller / winger style DM and the only other DM's in my area are lead the party by the nose or else types and I can't play in that kind of game since I get bored with not being able to change the story as a hero. I could never see the point of playing if there was no larger picture to mess with. My small group of players (8 - 10 players) has been bugging me to restart my campaign since the last game was nearly 3 months ago. I recently ended a long running homebrew campaign setting with the destruction of the whole world. The players deceided to help the villains along this path, although they did not know it but should have seen the major clues that would have been smacked across their faces. (my favorite a PC was a cleric of Heriunous(SP) and the NPC Cleric was a worshiper of Hextor who did not hide that fact, yet they traded and gave each other items.) Don't get me wrong it has been fun, but a long and painful road. I don't really want to change systems as I like the fantasy setting of D&D (tend to not allow much from books I don't own / approve of), Not certain what else there is you might want to know [/QUOTE]
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