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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9699784" data-attributes="member: 7006">No.  Double no.  Triple no.She is her own DM.  She is going to learn her own best practices.  She is not going to be perfect, and she is not going to be the best DM for how each and every one of you wish to play the game.  Heck... I've seen enough of your posts complaining about your players and all the different ways they play the game and what is important to them and how even you can't seem to make them all happy to know that there is ZERO chance this young woman is going to be able to do it.So like [USER=7808]@Deset Gled[/USER] said... let it go.  This is not about you.  This is not about you having a "good time" playing D&D.  This is about THIS person learning how to DM and you doing what you can to make it a good one.  Enjoy the weirdness for what it is... even if it isn't how you would run your own game.  After all... if you were playing Paranoia you'd know that the game would be run weird and odd things would happen and things wouldn't make sense and there wouldn't be any consistency... so just treat this game as though you were playing Paranoia and try and have fun playing this Paranoia-style game of D&D.Or if that is too much for you... if you need your time at the table to be absolutely perfect (which we all know isn't actually the case based upon the half-dozen campaigns of all different types you have tried to run for your various players and for which you have made many threads here on EN World where you are pulling your hair out over them)... then truly step away.  You always keep saying you feel like you need a break from gaming but then keep getting dragged back into it (by your wife and others)... so finally just do it if this game is really such a hardship.But if its not... if you can be happy just watching this young woman stumble through her first time as a DM and learn the ins and outs of it and hopefully learn to LOVE the art of DMing... then do it.  Make her time as a DM the BEST time of her gaming life.  Don't soil it by continually telling her what she's doing "wrong".</blockquote>

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