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<blockquote data-quote="Gnome Quixote" data-source="post: 3067784" data-attributes="member: 41433">I'm a noob DM--just ran my first live session this week, and am about two weeks into running a pbp game, running the same adventure for both groups. While running the first combat encounter for the live group, I mixed up the stat blocks for two sets of creatures, winding up with a set of extremely hard-to-kill dire rats and a MBEG (medium bad evil guy) who went down in two hits. Meanwhile, in the pbp game, one player's beachbum druid went and cast Entangle in the first round, turning what was supposed to be a straightforward combat into a marathon of reflex and strength checks as all the combatants wound up tangled up in weeds.(If anyone's curious, I'm running one of the sample dungeons from Dungeon Master For Dummies to start, and tying it into the plot of Urban Decay, from Dragon #138.)So this one goes out to all the old pros out there: what was your first time DM'ing like? Did you mess something up, or did it go smooth as silk? Did it make you ask yourself why the heck you volunteered for this, or why on Earth you hadn't done it sooner? What did you take from that first session to shape you into the DM you are today?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnome Quixote, post: 3067784, member: 41433"] I'm a noob DM--just ran my first live session this week, and am about two weeks into running a pbp game, running the same adventure for both groups. While running the first combat encounter for the live group, I mixed up the stat blocks for two sets of creatures, winding up with a set of extremely hard-to-kill dire rats and a MBEG (medium bad evil guy) who went down in two hits. Meanwhile, in the pbp game, one player's beachbum druid went and cast Entangle in the first round, turning what was supposed to be a straightforward combat into a marathon of reflex and strength checks as all the combatants wound up tangled up in weeds. (If anyone's curious, I'm running one of the sample dungeons from [i]Dungeon Master For Dummies[/i] to start, and tying it into the plot of [i]Urban Decay[/i], from Dragon #138.) So this one goes out to all the old pros out there: what was your first time DM'ing like? Did you mess something up, or did it go smooth as silk? Did it make you ask yourself why the heck you volunteered for this, or why on Earth you hadn't done it sooner? What did you take from that first session to shape you into the DM you are today? [/QUOTE]

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