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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 6755114" data-attributes="member: 5100">I guess I was never a "real beginner" then. Yeah, my first game was run by an experienced DM -- at summer camp. I went out and got the red box (found it at Walgreen's, of all places) right away and started a group. So, I've literally been a DM since my second or third session.While I get that I'm not standard, it's pretty hard for me to be dismissive of beginners and their ignorance on fire. Maybe it was the era in which I learned to play -- I did find Dragon, fairly quickly -- but I also was never really excited about published settings or adventures. Both fell into a category of "suggestions on how a real DM might build their own". The vague sketches of Mystara in the BECMI books and the lore inherent in Gygaxian prose were perfect, and you can still find remnants of both in my home brew. I stole mercilessly from the Greyhawk boxed set, but mostly it was the weather tables, knowing natural resources and alignments for nations, and some good ideas here and there, etc. not the actual setting. With the exception of Eberron, the general rule over the last 30+ years has been that the more detailed a setting is, the less interest I have in it.</blockquote>