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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 4466017" data-attributes="member: 44184">I'll agree that 4th is fun to DM. I only DMed a bit of 3.5, but I knew enough to quickly decide that I hated it. With 4th, though, I DM it like I teach. I know what I want to do and where I want to go, but I let the players direct me.I haven't written down anything for the campaign since the initial background information. The other day, I spent some time looking at monsters and thinking about where they were. When only 2 players showed up, we ended up running through a number of interesting and difficult encounters. It was a Dragonborn Paladin with a Greataxe and an Infernal Elven Warlock.It's fairly obvious that I don't plan things, but we've all been having a great time. The mere fact that I'm enjoying DMing surprises the hell out of me.They do occasionally destroy things faster than I would like. Infernal Warlocks are ridiculously nasty. But I've been able to do a lot of stuff to them, too. After all, there are only a few of them. A nice tunnel with enemies on both sides, or a small room at the bottom of a rope, and they suddenly look at things a lot different. I was actually able to throw 4-6 normal guys of their level at them. If the Paladin hadn't been able to use his Lay on Hands on himself, there's no way that they would have survived.</blockquote>