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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7375555" data-attributes="member: 97077"><p>I agree with the comments that length of time in the DM chair means very little in terms of the quality of advice given. You can trust me on that - I've been DMing for 25+ years.</p><p></p><p>Seriously though, both DMs with very little experience and a great deal experience can suck out loud. And <em>my</em> experience has been that the latter tends to be the case more often than the former, depending on the system. Old dogs, new tricks, and all that. I'm very leery of joining games where the DMs have been at it as long as I have been and never assume the advice of a longtime DM is good by default.</p><p></p><p>However, I am more apt to consider the advice of a DM who has DMed for a lot of different groups though. Often you'll get a longtime DM who's been with the same group, more or less, much of that whole time. That doesn't do much for the DM's perspective in my view. Joining many groups and running lots of games for different people on Roll20 since 2011 or so has really given me some good perspective on how players think and interact, what works, and what doesn't. I highly recommend it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7375555, member: 97077"] I agree with the comments that length of time in the DM chair means very little in terms of the quality of advice given. You can trust me on that - I've been DMing for 25+ years. Seriously though, both DMs with very little experience and a great deal experience can suck out loud. And [I]my[/I] experience has been that the latter tends to be the case more often than the former, depending on the system. Old dogs, new tricks, and all that. I'm very leery of joining games where the DMs have been at it as long as I have been and never assume the advice of a longtime DM is good by default. However, I am more apt to consider the advice of a DM who has DMed for a lot of different groups though. Often you'll get a longtime DM who's been with the same group, more or less, much of that whole time. That doesn't do much for the DM's perspective in my view. Joining many groups and running lots of games for different people on Roll20 since 2011 or so has really given me some good perspective on how players think and interact, what works, and what doesn't. I highly recommend it. [/QUOTE]
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