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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stoneagewar3" data-source="post: 7335603" data-attributes="member: 6855268">It is possible to DM without digging through the DMG for sure, I DMed for my current group for about a month before I picked up a copy of 5e DMG (I do have the DMG for 3rd edition and 4e, although I only really skimmed through the 3rd edition one prior to running my first games)You will want to at least read a portion of the PHB, character options can be left out, if you absolutely don't want to read it and can trust your players to be honestAnd thank you for making my day better, I was losing confidence as the last couple sessions had people spacing out, although it was most likely because I had to run my games in two languages as one of the players speaks a different language from the rest (he speaks english, the rest of my players speak mandarin) and that had been causing problems, I don't want to tell the guy that speaks only english to find another table as he is my best friend, I invited him knowing that it would mean running the game in two languages, however it turned out more disruptive than i imagined it would. I still have not found a pace and flow to tell the story without causing part of the table to have a long downtime, and sometimes I have to act as a translator when they wish to plan together. Reading your post, I realized that even though I am running the game in two languages, I am still far from being the worst, which kinda makes me feel better.Final note, seriously, dump your DM, or get someone else to DM it, he won't get any better at what he is doing at this rate, he isn't willing to learn and he isn't willing to put in the effort to build a system from scratch, this is probably as good as he is going to get</blockquote>

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