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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4454891" data-attributes="member: 158">My first time DMing was with an old 1980 Basic D&D box set. It involved running a group of first level PCs very poorly through White Plume Mountain (a module from another system of D&D, built for 7 levels above them!) and they all died about two rooms into the place, unsurprisingly. <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=":)" /> We were 10 years old, and had no clue how the frigging to hit and save charts worked, so we told it entirely through story. Pretty far cry from today! (well, not really -- what we did they'd call LARPing, but without the actual play acting.)If you are looking for any tips, the biggest one I have is to ask the guys and gals in the group to be patient with you, as it's new territory for you, and that you want everybody having fun to be first in mind. People are usually more than willing to cut you some slack, especially friends, and don't fret over a lot of rules calls and "doing everything perfectly." You'll screw up some things the first time out; Just look at some of the above stories for proof of that!Remember, even Gary Gygax and Monte Cook were terrible DMs at one time, too...</blockquote>