Besides as was stated already the occassional dry session, I believe my group would pick another GM if they didn't think I was good. Most of them have the imagination, but tell me that my ability to think quickly when something unexpected happens in the story and still make it flow is something that none of them can do. And the twisted puzzles, I love the twisted puzzles and schemes that I put them through and obviously so do they.
How long have you been a DM?
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DarrenGMiller
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DM'ing since 1982.
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Ulorian - Agent of Chaos
Legend
I DMed from 1983 through 1990, then played for another 3 years. I haven't touched an RPG since, but I still frequent these boards for some reason. And I own a dozen or so 3E books! How weird is that?
PieAndDragon
Duncan T
Been running RPGs since 1990, when I was 12. Ran before I played... and none of us had a clue, having never played or seen anyone else playing.
The thief of the party stole my notes in our first session, showing how we truly knew nothing.
The thief of the party stole my notes in our first session, showing how we truly knew nothing.
LogicsFate
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WOW! I wasn't born till 85, and I just started DMing late last year, that puts me in the minority it seems.
As for my skills, I have a good time, I get the job done, and I'd like to think my players enjoyed it too, It'll take alot more practise on my part to get good though
As for my skills, I have a good time, I get the job done, and I'd like to think my players enjoyed it too, It'll take alot more practise on my part to get good though
Galethorn
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I started in the fall of '02, lo, these three years ago...
When I started, I was terrible at it, and didn't know what the hell I was doing...and then my group of 4 (including me) joined a larger group with a semi-experienced (but still monty-haul prone) DM and abandoned our first campaign.
That second game folded in fall '03 when our party had killed off most of the major villains in FR, and I decided to try a Middle Earth campaign. It went pretty well, lasting from oct 03 to feb 04, when I killed it by making it too easy.
After that, one of the players DMed a short 3.5 campaign, in which I was a barbarian who killed things way too easily with a greatsword...ah, memories...
Then, I decided to revive my old homebrew setting from my first campaign. The campaign lasted from spring '04 until last march, when we finally got bored of it, and I realized that I was railroading the PCs a fair bit.
After that campaign folded, I did a few short games which never got off of the ground, including a dark-ages themed game and a near-future distopian setting.
After those, an old friend of mine and I got together and co-GMed a Star Wars d20 campaign over the summer focusing on Jedi in the period before the rise of the empire. I learned a lot about pacing and being tough on PCs without killing them.
Then, in September, I started a new incarnation of my longest running game using True20, which has been the most fun I've ever had GMing, and the most fun my players have had playing.
I've honed my skills considerably in three years, and I've gotten to the point where I know my strengths (plot, creepy horror elements, small town dynamics, and NPC interaction), how to play on them (my last adventure was about some evil cultists within an abbey who were robbing travellers by using dark magic), and my weaknesses (wilderness adventures, descriptions, and big battles) and how to counterbalance them (well structured notes).
When I started, I was terrible at it, and didn't know what the hell I was doing...and then my group of 4 (including me) joined a larger group with a semi-experienced (but still monty-haul prone) DM and abandoned our first campaign.
That second game folded in fall '03 when our party had killed off most of the major villains in FR, and I decided to try a Middle Earth campaign. It went pretty well, lasting from oct 03 to feb 04, when I killed it by making it too easy.
After that, one of the players DMed a short 3.5 campaign, in which I was a barbarian who killed things way too easily with a greatsword...ah, memories...
Then, I decided to revive my old homebrew setting from my first campaign. The campaign lasted from spring '04 until last march, when we finally got bored of it, and I realized that I was railroading the PCs a fair bit.
After that campaign folded, I did a few short games which never got off of the ground, including a dark-ages themed game and a near-future distopian setting.
After those, an old friend of mine and I got together and co-GMed a Star Wars d20 campaign over the summer focusing on Jedi in the period before the rise of the empire. I learned a lot about pacing and being tough on PCs without killing them.
Then, in September, I started a new incarnation of my longest running game using True20, which has been the most fun I've ever had GMing, and the most fun my players have had playing.
I've honed my skills considerably in three years, and I've gotten to the point where I know my strengths (plot, creepy horror elements, small town dynamics, and NPC interaction), how to play on them (my last adventure was about some evil cultists within an abbey who were robbing travellers by using dark magic), and my weaknesses (wilderness adventures, descriptions, and big battles) and how to counterbalance them (well structured notes).
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
I have been GMing since 1992.
StupidSmurf
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DMing since 1978, and going strong!
TheAuldGrump
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Thirty years come June.
The Auld Grump
The Auld Grump
The_Gneech
Explorer
I started in 1983, when I was 13 years old.
I have since become too old to do math in my head, but I'm pretty sure that makes 22 years...
-The Gneech
I have since become too old to do math in my head, but I'm pretty sure that makes 22 years...
-The Gneech
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