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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7142843" data-attributes="member: 5100">This bears repeating -- especially since I missed it, the first time around.Thinking back 35ish years, I did some really stupid things as a new DM. It only took me a couple of years (a long time as a teen, a flash in perspective) to grow through it, but the growth has to occur. When I was learning, there were no internet message boards to which a player could turn to get the "wisdom" of veteran DMs to submit to me as an argument. If there was, I probably wouldn't have survived the couple of years it took to grow through the roughest patch of stupidity. Instead, we just had "high volume conversations" that included a few words our parents wouldn't have liked. Sometimes, we even informed each other exactly which orifice we thought produced the ruling and left the game session early. We were pretty much always there for the next one, though.I don't necessarily recommend that exact approach for anyone who has completed puberty, but there's probably an adult version that includes a battery of quotes from Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, and Winston Churchill. It's a social game and the first level of socialization is the table (physical or virtual) at which you play.</blockquote>