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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoboGod" data-source="post: 5294358" data-attributes="member: 90920">If you're having one of your players be the DM, be their backseat DM. I was backseat DMing for a friend of mine who has had next to no experience in how to be the DM. If your player is as inexperienced as her, he/she wont have any idea of how many monsters to throw at the players, what kind of treasure he/she should be handing out, what's an appropriate amount of experience to be giving her players, and so on. Also, players are rotten, despicable, heartless monsters with no appreciation for a DM's feelings, being a backseat DM will allow you to stick up for your player when being criticized. However, be firm with this player, tell him/her when he/she isn't being strict on the other player's behavior or perhaps too strict (unlikely, players tend to walk all over new DMs).In the end, will the player learn to be a better player? Maybe, maybe not. If you have faith enough in this person, that person is likely a good player already and might not need much room for improvement. If that person is a bad player, well, prepare for huge disappointment. Bad players tend to fall into two categories: they don't like the game and are just playing it for some trivial reason or they are mild sociopaths which have almost no capacity to relate to others. Sometimes, really bad players fall into both categories. The people who don't like the game will have no passion and learn nothing, your only hope is that they develop some passion after DMing. The sociopaths might learn something and have a better appreciation of the DM, but they have an even slimmer chance of becoming a better player as a result.</blockquote>

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