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Post by dday1987 on Dec 28, 2017 2:12:45 GMT
I knew a friend had played dnd years back so I started asking questions, then he turned me onto the adventure zone. And when I caught up to that I needed my fix and got hooked on drunks and dragons and fell down the rabbit hole. With those two podcasts as my only link to dnd I bought all 3 books and read them front to back a few times and forced my wife and 6 friends to join me. None had any experience except that original friend that played 3.5 10 years ago. So I cold turkeyed my home brew world with past history and lands and created a massive story that has multi year potential. I'm two sessions in and the group is finally starting to get how to play. I'm so excited but I'm glad to have found this forum so I can finally talk to another dm about my ideas
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Rudolph
Squire
Posts: 39
Favorite D&D Class: Ranger
Favorite D&D Race: Firbolg
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Post by Rudolph on Dec 30, 2017 11:56:44 GMT
Began in wargaming but found pretty quickly that it wasn't my style. Last year, I decided "what the hey, I'm a theatre major and I love fantasy, this would be a great thing to try out!" I had been trying to get a group together since then and just managed to get a group now.
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Post by mshades on Jan 26, 2018 0:08:22 GMT
I have a group of co-workers that I game with, and for a long while we played board games - Game of Thrones was our go-to, but we would occasionally try some others. One day, one of the guys approached me and said that they were interested in doing D&D and thought I'd make a good DM. So I thought I'd give it a try, and here I am. DMing.
It's been less than a year now, but I'm really enjoying it! Our full group is currently nearly done with Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and I just started running a homebrew campaign with the whole group minus one (who has no interest in ever playing low-level again, but is fine with a parallel campaign running without him).
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captaindialup
Commoner
Posts: 19
Favorite D&D Class: Artificer
Favorite D&D Race: Kobold
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Post by captaindialup on Apr 11, 2018 4:13:22 GMT
Me and my wife picked up the starter box for 4th and played through the follow along adventure. We decided to pick up the others books which actually turned out to be the rerelease of 3.5 and after a bit of confusion, we realised we needed someone to run the game. So I stepped up to the plate and devoured the core books as best I could and ran a terrible off-the-top-of-my-head adventure for her, her brother and his friend. I think I made every rookie mistake that night but they all seemed to enjoy it. I mean, they kept coming back. So either I did something right or stockholm's set in real quick.
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Post by dmbridge4 on Jun 18, 2018 19:35:29 GMT
Hello all! I am new to the forum after listening to DMB for a while. I've been using Reddit a lot for tossing ideas out but I figured new mediums wouldn't hurt. About 2 years ago I finally decided to take the leap and fulfill my geeky obligations to play DnD. I had never played before and none of my friends had either, so being the one most interested in playing I decided to take on DM duties. 2 years later my first group is still going strong (5 of the 6 members had never played before) and are all on the verge of leveling up to level 10. I can't even imagine life without DnD, nor could my wife (who plays with me) and the creative outlet that it lends us. I know that I have much more to learn and hope that we can all help each other along the way.
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DM Brendino
Commoner
Posts: 1
Favorite D&D Class: Rogue
Favorite D&D Race: Halfling
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Post by DM Brendino on Jun 29, 2018 3:10:07 GMT
Hello! I've been meaning to join the forums here for months and I'm so glad I finally have a computer to do so a bit easier! I initially became interested in Dungeon Mastering when I was 8-10. My dad had mentioned a game that he and his brothers had played together in the 70s, and a while later he came back with the AD&D DM's Guide. I never had the chance to use any of the ideas I came up with until a decade later when I finally found people willing to play. After that first campaign petered out, a brutally altered version of the Mines of Phandelver, we had all caught the itch and I began to formalize some ideas in the hopes that the group would still be willing and able to play. That's when I started listening to DM's Block and it has been insanely helpful to me as I go through the process of world building, managing group dynamics, and trying to get my feet beneath me as a DM. I'm now 6 sessions deep into a homebrew campaign for 5 players and I can use all the help I can get. Hence why I'm here seeking some inspiration from the lovely folks on the forums I've been hearing about for the last 8 months of listening to DMB. Can't wait to dive in!
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Post by t4r3ntar on Mar 28, 2019 18:55:21 GMT
I had played a dungeons and dragons game in my childhood, but when my parents told me not to play anymore (and the dm turned out to be kind of a dick) I didn't play for years. At ~22 my brother (who was about 18) bought the pathfinder books and tried his hand at DMing. After an atrocious first game and making my brother surrender his idea of running a campaign, I sat down to write. I had this itch I had to scratch since I was 10, so I needed to play some more tabletop.
Taking my brothers world and morphing it and adding to it I have now created my own world and my own story all about a fallen star.
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lorddundar
Commoner
Posts: 11
Favorite D&D Class: Fighter/Cleric
Favorite D&D Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male
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Post by lorddundar on Oct 17, 2019 18:16:54 GMT
I was 8 when I started playing DnD back in 1980 or 81. I played with a friend and just killed monsters out of the monster manual. Well after a little bit we found an older kid that was running a game and learned what roleplaying really was. So fast forward a few years and one of the guys asked me to run a quick game because I was telling stories about our other DnD group. I was maybe 10ish so it was a straight up hack and slash dungeon crawl. We all had a blast and I thought maybe I could do this more often and make it more like the roleplaying group, thus I started down the path of the Dungeon Master.
I moved out to California for a few years and found a group of friends and we played every game we could with every system we could. I would run games every other week and my best friend would run games on opposite weeks. This is when I made my first real world and I would say my DMing begain. Now ADnD was the thing and no one knew all the rules but we had fun and broke soooo many things. I learned to make it up as you go along and don't let a rule get in the way.
Fast Forward again a few years and I move back to the east coast. I make some new friends and create a DnD group and I guess I have been running games about once a week until I got married and life really took over. Now I want to try to get back into the swing of things.
DM Lord Dundar
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daxredhammer
Adventurer
Posts: 73
Favorite D&D Class: Tinkerer
Favorite D&D Race: Minotaur
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Post by daxredhammer on Jan 10, 2020 8:45:10 GMT
I was a player from 7th grade until about my 5th year in the Marine Corps. Up to that point I knew many others that liked being a DM and I was not really interested. However, the time came when all my friends that DM'd were leaving the Corps and I realized that if I wanted to play then I needed to make and lead a group in a game.
When my kids were "old enough" to play, I had them gather their friends and ran a few games for them. That ended about 5 years ago and I have not played since then, but I still listen to many different podcasts to learn and keep up with a hobby I love in hopes that some day I will find another group.
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Post by littlefish on Jan 17, 2020 20:27:09 GMT
I kinda just became the DM, my group were new never played, and I had little knowledge to keep the story moving with the basic rules I knew. Always a DM, never the player. Now I working on a podcast for my group with a story I’ve been working on for the last year.
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daxredhammer
Adventurer
Posts: 73
Favorite D&D Class: Tinkerer
Favorite D&D Race: Minotaur
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Post by daxredhammer on Jan 20, 2020 19:55:13 GMT
I kinda just became the DM, my group were new never played, and I had little knowledge to keep the story moving with the basic rules I knew. Always a DM, never the player. Now I working on a podcast for my group with a story I’ve been working on for the last year. Just recently started enjoying many different D&D podcasts, let me know when yours is out, I would like to listen... |
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mindsculptor
Commoner
Posts: 1
Favorite D&D Class: Barbarian
Favorite D&D Race: Halfing
Gender: Male
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Post by mindsculptor on Aug 29, 2020 0:09:41 GMT
Hey everyone, it's taken me a couple years to get onto the forums, but here we are!
I became a DM as a way to take the load off of some of the other DM's in my play group.
I also did it specifically because they were board. I'm planning on being an active member here, so I'm glad to join!
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drfantasy
Commoner
Fantasy scholar, map afficionado, and worldbuilding fan
Posts: 7
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Post by drfantasy on Apr 18, 2021 6:14:53 GMT
When I was 12, a friend showed me this weird kind of game called RPG, and I asked my parents for one for my next birthday. It was a Swedish fantasy RPG and since the game was mine, I apparently was the DM when we started playing. I tried it on my father and kid brother (a disaster) and then on a bunch of my class mates during lunch breaks (also mostly a disaster) until I found the formula that worked: a small group, longer sessions, and the idea that adventures could be strung together to what we today call ”a campaign”.
It took only 6 months to shift from the Swedish RPG to D&D Basic, which was just coming out in Sweden, but I stuck with gaming and although we stayed with the Basic rules for a decade and a bit, I also played with 2e groups, ran a World of Darkness campaign and had a 8-year-stint with an entirely homebrewed system created to allow different missions in different types of worlds, from high-tech sf to high fantasy. Since 2013, I’m back with D&D, first 4e and now 5e. (Moving a campaign from one to the other was a bother!)
So, 35+ years of DM:ing and still learning how.
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