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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Odhanan" data-source="post: 3067838" data-attributes="member: 12324">what was your first time DM'ing like?It was great! I was running the Dark Eye RPG for a couple of friends from school, if I remember well. At the time, the French-speaking Initiation to Adventure boxed set presented the Dark Eye game in a very flavorful manner. It included a good adventure, which I think was the one I ran for my first time. I remember mostly a painting which was pictured with the adventure. The PCs had to find a secret door within the painting. It was a battle scene. It was very vivid and I loved the style of drawings from the main Dark Eye artist. Memories!(My first time actually DMing as in "DMing D&D" was with B1 and resulted in a TPK, but the players loved the game!). Did you mess something up, or did it go smooth as silk?I don't know if it was as smooth as silk, but I can tell you we had a lot of fun. I loved role-playing goblins and kobolds and make up voices for them. Great DMing comes from having fun with the game. So long as you have fun with the game, your enthusiasm will be communicated to your players, whether you mess up or not. And to be frank, you have to mess up some time. That's the only way to learn! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Did it make you ask yourself why the heck you volunteered for this, or why on Earth you hadn't done it sooner?I didn't ask myself any question like that. I knew RPGs were *my* thing. The thing I would master and nurture for the rest of my life. For this session, I just wanted to have a good time and wanted my friends to love the game so that we could play again the next week-end, and we did. What did you take from that first session to shape you into the DM you are today?That it's a lot about how events in-game actually happen. If nothing happens, the players are bored. If they keep losing to the bad guys, or have abilities that consistantly don't work, they are annoyed and have no fun. It's not about role-playing immersion or mastery of the rules. It's about having a good time and wanting to play again next time.</blockquote>

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