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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawken" data-source="post: 2862078" data-attributes="member: 23619">First, congratulations on your first game. Sorry to hear that it didn't go as smoothly as you would have liked. They rarely do though. I'm glad that you're not entirely discouraged from continuing to DM. Keep at it. You know what's best for you, but I'd suggest not dropping it for a couple of months. Having the DMG is very important. If you can't get one, for whatever reason, download a copy of the SRD and use that as a reference, it has some material from the DMG and you can familiarize yourself with that until you get a hold of a DMG. Regarding your "gaming buddy" if you're not too cheesed off at him to invite him back, instead ask if you can borrow his DMG. Get him to put up or shut up. If he doesn't want to contribute by helping you out, the just have him limit his contributions to the game to those that come from only a player and not someone asking to be ejected from the game. Don't worry about the trap thing. Things like that happen even to experienced DMs. And they are going to happen. Just go with it and if it ends up holding up the game, give the players an 'out' and move on.Ask what the other (other as in everyone who wasn't busting your chops) players thought about your session. Ask what they didn't like and what they did and work with that. The game is for the players. If they have some input into how it's done, they'll be more interested in it and more likely to overlook any slip ups and be less concerned with some of the rules. If you have some ideas for adventures, run it by them, see what they think. Ask where they want the game to go. Do they want a long campaign that would end up with high-level or epic characters? Do they want one-shot games? Have your players help with the game creation by developing backgrounds for their characters and then integrate some of that info into your game. If one of the PCs ran away from home, how would that impact the game if a sibling or parent showed up to bring them back home? Maybe one of them has a shady past and is being hunted by bounty hunters? A Han Solo-Boba Fett arc could add some spice to the game.</blockquote>

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