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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solomanii" data-source="post: 3125433" data-attributes="member: 13963">I was about 10 or 11 when I first started playing D&D.  I can’t recall how it actually happened to be honest.  My earliest memories were of playing Red Box  D&D with two of my friends and his older brother and I was a 15th level magic-user.  How I got there from level 1 is all too blurry to actually pinpoint exactly. I then ended up making a whole batch of different friends because of D&D.  These guys all played 1e which I devoured quickly and then ended up spending all my money on it.  I knew from the very first 1e game I played that I wanted to be the DM.  The material had my creative juices on overload and I started writing ideas down, forming a campaign in my mind and specific adventures and encounters.  I kept thinking “I can do better then this” (perhaps somewhat arrogantly).  From game 2 I started badgering the other DM(s) and players to play in my game but I was rebuffed for maybe a year.  This just made me work even harder on my game.When the various other campaigns all fell over for one reason or another I finally got my chance.  My campaign was so different to the others that from that point on I was the only DM for my group and the only person to run a campaign from start to finish.  My friends still talk about them today and I still run a D&D campaign some 23 years later.So how did I learn to DM?  No specific method.  Our group had so many different DM’s at the time with campaigns lasting only 3 or 4 modules before falling over I got exposed to a lot of different styles.  It wasn’t conscious but I recall thinking that the good stuff I would keep and the bad stuff I would dispense with.   I never have an urge to play as a player unless I am not DM’ing then I am happy to get my fix by playing.  I much prefer to DM exclusively.  And on the few occasions where I was a player I go through the same cylcle.  The act of playing (or reading) DnD material always sparks off dozens of campaign ideas for my own game and a new campaign slowly forms in my mind.  For example I have the next 3 campaigns planned out in my head (and on paper) to varying degrees plus the one I am actually running.  All linked one way or another.And that’s how I became a DM/GM.</blockquote>

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