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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaos_Kitten" data-source="post: 2759876" data-attributes="member: 13257">Well I finally decided to take the plunge and run my own, small D&D game.  It was with people I  consider good friends, because I'd figure they'd only laugh at my poor attempts in private.  Spare my feelings and all that good stuff.  It was also online, because they're all skattered across this country and our friendly neighbor to the north.  The beginning adventure was pretty basic.  Some creature was terrorizing a local village and the local lord would do nothing about it.  So the mayor of the town hired put out a call for adventurers to help.  The pay wasn't that great and so they got the PCs who were first level guys.  The PCs would eventually find out the people were being killed by a wereboar.  A wereboar that happened to be the lord's brother.  Heroics would ensue.The problem was that there was apparently some animosity between the players.  No one ever told me this.  No one made any protests when I commented who would be in the campaign.  The game turned into the PCs basically trying to undermine each other at every turn.  If one person made a suggestion, even  if it was reasonable, the rest would argue.  It was frustrating and made even trying to run it depressing.  Once they finally just said what was going on I ended the game.My first attempt at DMing just completely crashed and burned.  Now I'm really wary about even trying again.  Has something like that happened to you enworlders out there?  How did you dust yourself off and get back into the saddle.  I would like to try, but I'm worried I'll just fail again.</blockquote>

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