Meet Another New Dungeon Master

Hi there, and welcome to my blog: Another New DM. I am Yumi, as you might have guessed I've recently been diving in to the world of mastering dungeons at the game table. I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons as a player since the early 2010s, starting with 4e and later moving on to 5e. While I do still play in a regular campaign with my friends online through Roll20 I've recently decided to try my hand at DMing with a new group I'm putting together with my co-workers. I'm super excited to get started but even though I've picked a pretty easy campaign to start them off with (Lost Mines of Phandelver) I'm a little scared that I may have gotten myself in a little over my head with potentially 8 PCs if everyone shows up and stays with it. Thankfully most of them are also new to D&D as a whole so I feel like that gives me a little bit of an advantage. 

I'm really excited to start this new journey and plan on making a new blog post every week with updates on how the campaign grows and evolves and how the PCs are doing in their adventures. Hope you'll join me, Another New DM, on her quest to make the greatest campaign ever!

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