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<blockquote data-quote="RevTurkey" data-source="post: 6540040">I used to suck as a DM. I have improved and I am now fantastically mediocre. That said, sometimes...my players have fun..maybe by accident!My road to improvement was to run lots of published adventures for several different systems by several different publishers. I learnt a lot. I learnt to start small and not be over ambitious. Let things unfold at their own pace. I found running the following most helpful...Running Castles &amp; Crusades...Goodman Games modules. Good simple structures.Running DCC...Goodman Games modules. Again, nice, concise adventures.Savage World's Hellfrost modules from Triple Ace Games. Fine examples of how to take a plot from somewhere (TV etc) and reskin it or give it a new twist. Great.Call of Cthulhu... Good for practicing keeping the plot and information in your head and remembering things and reacting to the unexpected.Running a simple sandbox game (I used 5th D&amp;D)..just build the place and let the players loose...if they are any good they will give the game direction probably.I recently read the Fate Core rulebook and the scenario building section was good.I think just have a go and keeping failing spectacularly until you improve. I did.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="RevTurkey, post: 6540040"] I used to suck as a DM. I have improved and I am now fantastically mediocre. That said, sometimes...my players have fun..maybe by accident! My road to improvement was to run lots of published adventures for several different systems by several different publishers. I learnt a lot. I learnt to start small and not be over ambitious. Let things unfold at their own pace. I found running the following most helpful... Running Castles & Crusades...Goodman Games modules. Good simple structures. Running DCC...Goodman Games modules. Again, nice, concise adventures. Savage World's Hellfrost modules from Triple Ace Games. Fine examples of how to take a plot from somewhere (TV etc) and reskin it or give it a new twist. Great. Call of Cthulhu... Good for practicing keeping the plot and information in your head and remembering things and reacting to the unexpected. Running a simple sandbox game (I used 5th D&D)..just build the place and let the players loose...if they are any good they will give the game direction probably. I recently read the Fate Core rulebook and the scenario building section was good. I think just have a go and keeping failing spectacularly until you improve. I did. :) [/QUOTE]

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