DMing

Tabletop players are unpredictable -- that's what makes Dungeon Mastering fun, ultimately.

I remember when I decided to start my first Dungeons and Dragons game as a DM, and found about a month into it that I'd accidentally created my own campaign world.

Being a Dungeon Master for a TTRPG like Dungeons and Dragons means a fair amount of work involved in running an adventure for a group of players, but you may be surprised how often that is all for nothing.

If there's one thing that every Dungeons and Dragons game needs, it's a Dungeon Master.

I've been playing and Game Mastering various tabletop RPGs for a long time -- from old school Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder, to Wraith the Oblivion, Exalted, and Talislanta. I've run GURPS, Champions, Silver Age Sentinels, Unknown Armies, Conspiracy X, Call of Cthulhu, Earthdawn, Heavy Gear... it's a lot of games.

Sometimes, there's no specific game system out there that both works mechanically and thematically for your Tabletop RPG party.

One of the things I talk about in terms of running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign as a DM is how helpful it is to take inspiration from other sources, and those sources don't have to just be fantasy novels and movies, either.

Everyone runs their game differently, and I don't mean to even try and tell you this is the way to be a game master/DM/whatever term you use for the person who runs the game here.

Nothing kills fun in a tabletop RPG faster than a rules argument.

You've been DMing for a while now, let's suppose.