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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrWildman" data-source="post: 4134503" data-attributes="member: 51928">In my first group I was the default DM from the time we learned it is 7th grade until our mid-20's.  When I wanted on the other side of the screen many options presented themselves:Our main campaign world, my self-consistent, ongoing storyline, was the usual venue.  But I was allowed to call a night of what we dubbed: "Fightin' Things".  This was just random encounters all night long. maybe arena combat followed by a flying chase followed by a forest ambush.  My characters lived longer than most.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Eventually the players became interested in understanding more of the rules.  They'd show up with handwritten notes and pencil-drawn maps, formatted like TSR modules.  Soon there were three rotating DMs.We allowed a form of the dreaded DMPC (certainly a can of worms, if nothing else, eh?) as what might be called "Guest Stars" or "Cameos", characters from other settings .  We also had fun playing teams of NPCs at a time: an order of knights, a church hierarchy, wizard's or thieves' guild, etc.  You have stables of customizable characters you can lovingly level to greatness or alternately test to destruction.  I became very attached to some that started at 1st level and survived the agreed-upon penalty of receiving 1/2 XP for leaving your world to attain "Name Level" and beyond (Bwa-ha-haa!) My current group has two regular DMs; myself and another (Woo-hoo!) and our game world has to large continents separated by a vast ocean.  I DM the continent of Zarzia and PC in the continent of Anturrum, my friend vice versa.  It's working very nicely.Peace.</blockquote>

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